Coco Gauff Biography

Coco Gauff's father followed a similar road map drawn by the Williams sisters’ father, Richard Williams, including "a shared training base of Pompey Park in Delray Beach, Florida". Her mother, who told CNN that Coco was the worst tennis player at a summer camp at seven, realized her potential noticing her determination to run after every ball. The same year, her family relocated from Georgia to Florida, where she trained with Gerard Loglo at the New Generation Tennis Academy.

In 2012, she won the 'Little Mo 8-under Nationals', and two years later, at the age of 10 years and 3 months, she won the 'USTA Clay Court National 12-under' title. Coco, who idolized both Venus and Serena Williams, was selected by Serena's coach Patrick Mouratoglou as part of his Champ’Seed foundation at the age of 11, and has trained twice at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy in Nice, France. At 12, she won her first three girls' 16-under singles matches at the 'Eddie Herr International Championships'. While she has been making and breaking records ever since, she finally achieved her dream in mid-2019 after being selected to play in the Wimbledon main draw as the youngest player ever. On her Grand Slam debut on July 1, 2019, she defeated Venus Williams in straight sets to register an emphatic win. Jumping from 874 eight months ago, she became the 313th ranked player in July 2019.

Back in July 2017, Coco Gauff had lost the second qualifier at the 'Wimbledon Junior Championships' in Great Britain. The following month, she reached the final of 'Prince George’s County International Hard Court Junior Tennis Championships'. In September, she again reached the final at the 'US Open Junior Tennis Championships'. She reached the semifinals of the 'AGL Loy Yang Traralgon Junior International' in January 2018. In June that year, she won her first Junior Grand Slam Title at the 'Roland Garros Junior French Championships' in Paris, France. The next month, she won the 'Junior International Roehampton' in Roehampton, Great Britain. In the 2018 'Wimbledon Junior Championships', she was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the singles event and the semifinals of the doubles event. She subsequently won two doubles titles at the 'Junior US Open' in September and the 'Mundial Juvenil Yucatan HSBC FMT' in November. In December 2018, she won the prestigious junior tennis tournament, the 'Orange Bowl International Tennis Championships', defeating her Chinese opponent Qinwen Zheng.

After failing to qualify for the 'US Open' in the singles, Coco Gauff began her professional career by appearing at the mixed doubles even of the tournament in September 2018. She lost in the final of the doubles event at the 'W100 Midland' in Miami in February 2019. At the 'W25 Surprise' in Arizona, she won the doubles title, but lost in the final of the singles event. In June, after being given a wildcard entry, she won all three qualifying rounds in straight sets to reach the main draw at Wimbledon. In her Grand Slam debut, she has defeated Venus Williams in the first round itself..

Cori 'Coco' Gauff was born on March 13, 2004 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, to Corey and Candi Odom Gauff. She has two younger brothers named Codey and Cameron. Her father played basketball at Georgia State University, while her mother was a track and field athlete at Florida State University. Coco used to run around the track with her older cousins since she was three or four years old. She began playing tennis when she was seven, and was coached by her father. To keep up with her busy schedule, she was homeschooled by her mother, who is a former teacher. Her father owns the Paradise Sports Lounge bar in Delray Beach, Florida.