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2:00 What makes you say she is a great role model?
Do you condone her behavior at the Olympics when she accused the Umpire of being racist (bringing up Serena)?
Is that the number one reason/excuse you would teach your students to do go if they don't get a favorable call?
Excellent review….you most definitely know your stuff!!
You are virtue signalling again . Pathetic comparison between her and Novak. She’s had serving issues ever since she began . Not one tournament. Her behaviour at the Olympics was a disgrace. She’s had everything laid at her feet because of her skin colour yet still plays the race card ! You sounding bad man!
Only unhinged republicans lunatics supporters of unhinged convicted lunatic felon Trum put other people down and spread hate.
Coco fell apart at 4 slams in a row Paris, London, Paris and NYC. All while having the best team in tennis. That’s what has people doubting and talking . Chris evert k stuffing, Martina, the other greats were consistent they didn’t fall apart
While the ESPN Coco hype machine is tiresome, the vitriolic criticism of her is uncalled for. However, I found Rennae Stubb’s post-match “back to the drawing board” comment with Brad Gilbert sitting right next to her a total shot across the bow to a fellow commentator.
Coco has been on tour so long people seem to forget just how young she is. At the USO they mentioned that Hawkeye tracks players foot speed now and Coco was indeed the fastest WTA player at about 15mph. She also has the 5th fastest serve ever at 128mph. How much she's been able to achieve with glaring and exploitable issues in her game is impressive. I don't know if she will ever reach her full potential but her ceiling is very high.
Coco Gauff does have a serious double fault problem with her serve. It's true that anyone can have a bad match with double faulting, even the likes of Djokovic or Federer. The question is how often. When you look at the career DF%, Djokovic is 3%, Federer 2.4%, Swiatek 3.4%, and Gauff is 7.2%. In the 2023 season when Gauff won US Open, she had her best year with DF% at 5.1%. But this year somehow her DF% regressed back to 8.5%. She really needs to reduce her DF% to 5% or lower to be a consistent contender for grand slam titles. Gauff's double faults can not be explained away by a few bad matches. She has been bad throughout her career, with the exception of her best season in 2023. It doesn't matter she can hit 30 or 40 serves in a row in practice, as long as she keeps producing that 7% double fault rate in competition, that means she doesn't have a reliable second serve that can stand pressure. Something has to be done to fix that. Another player with a 7% career double fault rate is Sabalenka, but Sabalenka is improving, cutting her DF% down to 6.2% in 2023 and then to 4.8% in 2024. Gauff needs to find a way to make similar improvement, or she is unlikely to win another slam again. Whatever the coach is or isn't doing, she simply can not continue to have DF 7+% seasons and expect success.
Thanks for defending Coco.
even tho Gauff just turned 20, she's still has some growing up to do esp when things REALLY don't go her way. with bad breaks, bad calls in the Olympics, Wimby, etc., she expends emotional energy which robs her of focus and this translates to breakdown in performance on the court. granted she has matured enough to have a phenomenal 2023, but this year, she just wasn't able to hunker down. she has too many outside responsibilities: media shows, and her sponsors: New Balance, Rolex, Naked Juice, Bose… and those are just the ones w tv ads during USO24. technique is not a problem and not the coaching in itself w Gilbert. but if BG were to effectively help, he should try convince Coco to go back to what tennis is about: match toughness. she's made enough $$$ many times over, so curbing distractions can go a long way. interestingly, last year BG told Mary Joe Fernandez that he told Coco she was going to win last year's open, which MJF objected to his prediction for the obvious pressure it would have on her. go figure he was right.
Coco’s serve is quite a disappointment. First of all, she needs to admit she has issues with her serve and be courageous enough to fix the problem and to seek help. Sabalenka pleaded for help and assistance when she was committing so many double faults. Things turned around for Sabalenka. Coco should corret her serve and work diligently on her forehand which are both flawed.
Sir, I always follow your insights on players about their tennis games states, Good job and Keep it up! I have one question, I remember you always categorizing Djokovic in exceptional ones while Carlos as one the great ones. Is your belief still same?
I love Navarro
She needs Goran to help with the serve.
I have a feeling that Coco’s Dad may use Brad Gilbert as a scapegoat for his daughter’s failings.
Good night l like your channel but these comments hete are so wrong. Comparing 19 double faults in three sets to fourteen in four sets is absurd. Also none of the comments about Miss Gauf are unreal. Miss Gauff has only won a single Grand slam. To make a comparison with perhaps the greatest male player again is unreal. Miss Gauff may never win another slam her game has too many flaws. Am l hating on her certainly no but l am very realistic. Gauff never became number one and l don't see that happening soon.
I actually like Coco Gauff. I just hate Brad Gilbert and the terrible job he's done with her. I'm rooting for Coco to get a good coach that will improve her service game.
Players who start becoming political start getting hate. Entertainers in general best to stay away from politics. Winning cures all
I think people hate on Gauff simply because they are trying to replace Serena and Venus with Coco. It’s ridiculous. Coco is her own player. So, they are not really hating on her. They are hating on their own disappointment that Serena and Venus are no longer playing. They want someone else to replace the William’s so badly that it hurts every time their epic standards are not met. Coco is an amazing player, as are other greats who get knocked out of tournaments early. People need to chill out. Geez! 🙄
12:58 From the players' point of view: If a men's match (5 sets) starts at 22:00, it can end at 3:00. If a women's match (3 sets) starts at 12:00 p.m., it can end at 3:00 a.m. Therefore, it is better for men's matches to start earlier than women's matches in the night session. If someone goes to sleep at 3:00 am, AS AN ACT OF HUMANITY, it is better that they are the one who played the fewest hours.
Nothing wrong with women’s game following the men’s first night match. They are paid the same as men so should expect to stay up as late as men. If the women’s game is worth watching, fans would stay up to watch it
Coco brought this on herself playing the victim/race card. Even J Mac was dismayed that she claimed so much hatred. She literally taunted her critics when she won the US open.
News flash…the internet is full of negative comments directed at all the other players too Nick
Nothing but respect for both Coco and Brad. Coco is a national treasure to us and I’m pulling for her to be the best she can be
The negativity on social media is stupid. Gauff's serve is a definite weakness. I really wish she'd do what Sabalenka did. Get a biomechanical professional to work with her on her serve, though. Also, she needs to address the forehand a bit. But the serve is her biggest problem at the moment. I love Coco, so this is not negativity from me. But it's hard to win any match double faulting 19 times. Difference between Novak and Coco is that this is a trend in her case. Novak's 14 double faults was an outlier, whereas Coco has had trouble with her serve for months.
It's a very handsome picture of Nick in the thumbnail. Croatian🎾players are great
Guaff is not the level of what media and her expecting to be yet! She is only 20 so still time for improve and complete her game. All the pressure and expectations doesn’t help either.
Haters are idiots.
1. They want to find a replacement for Serena in Gauf.
2. Whoever goes online and says things he wouldn't dare saying in person is a coward.
3. I believe Djoko's knee is far from 100%. I see him avoiding bending down to reach low balls.
caro garcia had a compelling post on instagram on the negative comments
Please don't compare the Djokovic serve issues in one match to Gauff who has had long standing serve issue
Really a wonderful video. Thank you for another positive and thoughtful discussion.
i don't think there's an issue of Brad Gilbert being a good coach and tennis mind, but is he the right coach for Coco at the moment? I don't think so. He got way too much credit for her run last year (joined the team right before it). Since they've been working together in a whole off-season, she's regressed significantly. It looks like they don't relate well to one another, being from different generations and even different worlds.
Because she is boring and an annoying player to watch. She's called double fault Gauff. Navarro is a better and more complete player. Coco only plays from the baseline and hardly ever comes to the net except when her opponent forces her to! Maybe Coco needsa better coach! She will be lucky to stay in the top 10 by the end of the year.
Some negativity may be warranted. It depends on if it's reasonable. Personally, I don't care too much about something being positive or negative. I care for if the reaction is reasonable. A lot of the reactions seen are probably not.
Second. The media and culture can probably be blamed. Media hypes and plays into expectations from tennis fans. There is a culture where some of the things taught leads to a sense of entitlement which leads to such reactions when things don't go their way. For example, enabling. There are quite a lot of enabling being promoted. But certain people just refuse to see it. Perhaps the funniest is how people are trying to promote the toxic ideology of not judging and yet it makes them way more judgmental. The amount of h8 coming from people who bark "Don't judge!" – clearly that doesn't work.
Honestly, some people are just blind to some of the things staring them right in the face.
How to stop double faulting
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line; her early training has come up to haunt her. Her athleticism got her over for a long time. It's not working anymore, the tour has caught on to her. Venus started off hotter than Coco. She won 5 Wimbledon's and I believe two US opens.The tour caught on to what she was doing and she didn't win anymore majors. Didn't help she had a sister winning everything. With that said; when her coach tweaked her serve by bringing in Andy Roddick, and she brought in two other coaches at different times to work with her main coach; that's too much information coming from too many people. I also think she's not willing to change. This is a train wreck that's not going anywhere. She need to sack everybody; take a little time off, and decide what she wants to do as far as technique. As much as I would love to see her win, it appears her run is done. She can beat tons of players but slams and other big titles are out of the question. Her major will turn out to be a one-trick pony like Salone, Emma and probably Sophie kenin.
Gauff will go full Capriati eventually
Gauff might be a good player but she is simply not a likeable character. I guess the fact that they REAALLYYY want a new Williams doesn´t help either
Your insight into what tennis is really like is like a breath of fresh air. Thanks
Nice to see some other players other than Novak and Carlos have a chance to win a Grand Slam.
It’s a mistake to think the haters only focus on Gauff’s second serve. In fact, Gauff’s rate of double faults and her rate of forehand unforced errors are both too high. For some older players, fewer of whom use(d) a full Western grip, Gauff’s forehand looks strange, making it more susceptible to being disliked as a weakness in her game. Plus, a lot of pundits have also been saying Gauff needs to work on her forehand.
I think a lot of boils down to a lot of people when it comes to coco are upset and use the terms “overrated” and “overhyped” because the success she has been able to generate and obtain for herself at such a young age. But when she fall short compared to her peers, oh many of these people try to rip her a new one and hope she comes crashing down. Yes her game style is unorthodox and very different compared to most players. But that is what makes her special. Her serve can be so much better and her forehand could be in a better place but a lot of you seem to not understand trying to technically change someone’s game who has be use to playing that way is very hard to do even as the player. It’s either going to work for the better for them or it’s going to be for the worst. Give people grace and chance to recalibrate and fix their issues. A lot of people go pasted of the point of giving her constructive criticism, to then just trying to shit on her and the things she has accomplished thus far. And i think that’s a lot of peoples personal problems that they place on coco, “the expectation”.
I do not care if this comment ruffles some people’s feathers but also her racial background plays a part too, a lot of people use these small micro aggression towards her because she is a young black woman who is in a predominate European dominating field. I myself being a person of color and minority, we have to work twice as hard and have to be twice as perfect to have a place in this world unfortunately. And many players on both the WTA side and ATP do struggle and go through those things. I think a lot of these nasty comments come from a place of hate for coco just because of who she is and segment of the population that she represents that look like her.
All in all, you can critique a player, but you should never insult or disrespect a player because they had a bad day in office. A lot of these internet thugs can not even compete on that same caliber or level that then young men and women do.
Many of us know why she gets the unwarranted hate and disrespect & truly understand and empathize with her.
Gauff is a Slam winner but she is streaky , and somewhat over rated! At the moment hard to believe she won a Slam after hitting 19 double faults this is NOT hate this is a technical fault! GET THE EMOTION AND POLITICAL CORRECTNESS out of this!
Gilbert's coaching NOT working for Gauff whatever the reason! Brad a bit too soft on Coco? Is Brad even a technique coach or more of a mental and a repetition coach?
Tiafoe is the most talented American on ATP tour!
Criticism of technique and results IS NOT HATE ! Political correctness does NOW not allow for critique of form/flaws in tennis? ! Gauff's racquet position on service return is inefficiently strange who taught her to lay her racquet so flat ? Françoise Dürr was also a Slam winner but her technique was horrible talk about winning ugly!