Coco Gauff Press Conference | 2025 US Open Round 4

Coco Gauff’s press conference following her loss against Naomi Osaka in Round 4 of the 2025 US Open.

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I’m going right to questions. Okay. Okay. Uh, one question each. Please raise your hands. Please be succinct. No shooting from the seats, please. Thank you. Questions. David. Hi there, Kok. Obviously disappointment the result given what you came in with. How did you feel today went overall as a performance? Obviously Naomi played well. Yeah. No, Naomi played well. Um, today was like disappointing because I felt it was like the best I served all tournament. A lot of aces. Um, yeah, there were some doubles, but I thought like that was a good performance for me serving and off the ground. I think I just made way too many mistakes, way too many errors and errors, which I feel like that’s the part of my game um that I felt the most confident in coming into the tournament. So, it was kind of weird match like feeling confident in different areas swapping. Um yeah, I mean it’s disappointing for sure. It was not the level that I wanted to bring, but um it is a step in the right direction I feel and I think emotionally how much this week was. I think today I just stepped in and I maybe was a little bit empty but um she forced me to to earn every point out there today. Okay, Willie Coco, you always pride yourself on learning from adversity. What do you hope to learn from not just today but the whole experience during this tournament? Um I think that trying to be more positive. I mean after the match I was really disappointed um kind of broke down to my team and then hearing their perspectives and everything. It definitely is a lot of positive things if I think if I kept the way I was going in Cincinnati um to here I would have been out the first round. Um, and so I think that where my serve started from the start of the tournament to today, um, was a big improvement. And I feel like, um, now I just have to get everything to work together. Um, but yeah, it was I knew going in it was going to be a tough tournament for me. And did I feel like I had a lot of confidence after my last match? Yeah, definitely. I think that was a big confidence booster. Uh today feels more disappointing I think um than maybe it would have felt losing in the first or second round. Sorry Matt. Hey Coco today. Thanks. Um can you compare this year losing in this round also having some struggles with your consistency to where you were last year. Um obviously different members of your team, different thoughts, different plans and things like that. um sort of how it is going forward and what you focus on. Yeah, I mean my goal going into the tournament this year was not to lose the same way that I lost last year and I don’t remember how many doubles I hit in my match against Emma, but it was definitely in the double digits. Um so I didn’t do that today and yeah, I mean it’s been a tough I think post French Open for me for sure. Um, and I know the improvements that I need to make and I feel like I’m like making the right decision by making them. I wish I had more time um, between this tournament and Cincinnati, but that’s the cards that I I was given. And I don’t know, I think today when I walked on the court and I don’t know, I feel like I put so much pressure on myself at my age at 21 and I realized like how much uh the girls on tour are being successful at like 25, 26 at those ages. So I think for me it just gets me excited to realize if I have like four more years of just working as hard as I am right now and actually doing the right things like where my game could be. and it has obviously improved in the last four years from four years ago to now. So I think um if I can make that same jump of improvement, it’s a lot to be ex excited for the future for. Catherine, hi Koko. Just um in terms of what’s next, obviously you’re kind of at the start of a a bit of a project with Gavin and the rest of the team. Is the intention or the plan a to take a training block to work on that project or do you want to do it on continue doing it on the job like at events on tour? Yeah, I mean I have no choice but to do a training block between now and Beijing just the next tournament I’m signed up for. Um and like I’ve said this every uh year I after Yes Open for me it’s just improvement mode and to get ready for Australia. I yeah, I had good results last year um after US Open and I think that’s just because I didn’t I don’t want to say didn’t care because those tournaments obviously deserve effort but I don’t know it’s just that your mindset is different once the slams are over and yeah so whatever happens for the rest of year I just want it to be improvement I don’t care results wise um yeah last year if you told me I would go win in Beijing in WTA finals I would have been like whatever I didn’t really care going into it um so yeah and I’m going to probably have that same mindset and if you know I do well I do well like I did last year and if not if not but I think for me the main improvements I get are from how I do in the slams. Charlie Coco tough one. Um I just wonder why you thought you mentioned that obviously since Ron Garos it has been pretty tough. I just wondered kind of why you thought it was whether that was like the end of a cycle or yeah just kind of to talk through that. Um I mean obviously I won rolling Geralt since like yeah great result and things like that. Um but I knew where I was in my game and I knew that I needed to make an improvement and um for me like we tried something after rolling girls and it didn’t really work and I I don’t think I fully believed in that plan. Um, and you know, the opportunity became to work with Gavin on this and um, like I felt like JC and I have been doing incredible work. Um, and that’s why I and also Matt, that’s why I won Rolling Girls, but obviously the serve was not where it needed to be um, in that tournament. Um, so yeah, I think for me I just knew I needed to make an improvement and I was trying things with it and I feel like this is actually the right step forward um in Cincinnati and I just don’t think I had enough time uh to make that adjustment. Okay, hi uh thank you for your time. Uh if you can compare Naomi, today’s Naomi to previous matchup. Uh did you find any differences in like how she plays or um last time we play was in Beijing last year and she got injured. So I don’t even remember the time before that. I don’t want to use that as an example because it was she we didn’t finish the match. So I don’t even remember the time before that. But um I mean she seems relaxed out there. I mean, today she was definitely on paper the underdog. Um, but yeah, maybe relax. I don’t know. It’s hard for me to say. Um, but yeah, she’s playing great tennis today. I thought she played well. Uh, she forced me to play how I did today. And yeah, I think she she’s improved a lot um since coming back. Um, but I regardless in whatever form she’s in, she’s always a tough player and I don’t think any one takes her for granted. um regardless of where her quote and unquote form is, especially on hard courts. I have time for two more. Brian and Ben, just making sure I understand. I wanted to go back to um one of your earlier answers. I mean, obviously you served really well. Yeah. U is it fair to say, you know, all of the what have you, emotional ups and downs from having to remake the serve or tweak the serve and all the stuff that you’ve gone through the past week and a half that that kind of played an aggregate effect today? maybe left you emotionally kind of empty in the tank. Yeah. Um, honestly, when I immediately got on got off on court, I didn’t feel that way cuz I’m such a competitor and I don’t want to use like anything as like a scapegoat or something like that, but after talking to my team and I still like whatever, maybe I don’t believe it fully, but they mentioned that probably could have been the performance for today cuz physically I felt fine. And honestly, today I felt good on court. like I woke up today like thinking no like this is going to be a good day for me or I’m going to play well and then out there I just don’t know what happened. So yeah, after talking to them, they all agreed that that could have played a role. But again, I just feel like mentally where I am, I feel like I’m so strong and maybe I’ll look back at this and agree with them, but I just am more disappointed in how I played. So I don’t know the answer to that immediately after, but maybe when I have some time to think about it, I can say. Ben, last question. So, so on I mean on return especially was usually one of your strengths. You had a tough time getting into her service games at all. I think it was still midway through the second set that you want to point on her first serve because she was perfect on that for a while. How much was that just her being one of the best servers and just having a great day at the office on that or how much do you feel like you were struggling on on return has been most the talk about this sort of stage of your improvements but it felt like statistically today was not your best day. Yeah. No, I definitely think it was both. Obviously, she was serving well on the first serve, but I felt like today I was making way too many errors on the serve, especially second serve. I think in that first set, I don’t think her first serve percentage was even that high and I wasn’t really getting into the rallies at all, which is like you said a strong suit in my game. So, yeah, I think for me, I felt so discombobulated on the court because it’s like I’m serving well but not returning well, which last two years like everybody can agree that’s like a weird thought. Um, so yeah, but I am excited because I know that part of my game I feel like off the ground I wasn’t just doing well at also today. So I’m excited because I’m like, okay, if I can serve well and also return well, then what’s going to be it’s going to be pretty good for me. Um, so yeah, I think, you know, there’s a lot of positives to take from this tournament. Um, and I’m trying to be positive in front of you guys. I promise you that, you know, I don’t feel that way right now, but I am not going to let this crush me and I look forward to the future and making more improvements and yeah, hopefully next year um I can grow a lot as a player and a person. All right. Thank you, Coco. Thank you. Thank you, everyone.