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If you’ve watched enough tennis, you’ve probably noticed that Coco Gauff’s box usually includes her coaches and her mom, Candi Gauff. One important person is almost always missing, though – her father and former coach,
Tennis star Coco Gauff is paying it forward with a $150,000 donation to the United Negro College Fund. The donation marks Gauff’s second major contribution to the organization. Last year, she donated $100,000, bringing her total gifts to $250,000 to support the Coco Gauff Scholarship Program, which supports HBCU student-tennis players.
After rallying to defeat Hailey Baptiste in the third round of the Australian Open, Coco Gauff used her on-court interview to call out a fan who heckled her opponent during the match.
Never mind that the person she saw there, her old junior-days friend Hailey Baptiste, is ranked 67 spots behind her and has 11 fewer titles. It was Baptiste who was doing all the things that Gauff has been trying to do over the past two years.
Coco Gauff is busy trying to win another Grand Slam title at the Australian Open, but was asked by a reporter to weigh in on Year 1 of the Trump Administration. Gauff, the top-ranked American woman and world No. 3, didn’t hold back.
Coco Gauff survived a scare in her Australian Open third-round match as the No. 3 seed had to come back from a set down to beat world No. 70 Hailey Baptiste 3-6 6-0 6-3.
Coco Gauff is through to the fourth round of the Australian Open after coming from behind to beat Hailey Baptiste. The 21-year-old recovered well from a slow start, losing the first set before taking control and dropping just three games across the next two sets.
Coco Gauff continues to impress at the Australian Open, where she has reached the fourth round in Melbourne. The American has picked up victories against Kamilla Rakhimova, Olga Danilović, and Hailey Baptiste so far,