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via EEWMagazine/Tina Paulson/The Today Show: Teen tennis sensation Coco Gauff hopes “playing it cool” when she meets her celebrity fans belies the truth that she is actually “fan-girling so hard” over them. During a Friday appearance on the “Today” show, the 15-year-old shared how she felt the first time former U.S. first lady Michelle Obama […]

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viaEEWMagazine/EEW Magazine Sports News: What a powerful moment at The U.S. Open! looked across the net after ending Coco Gauff’s U.S. Open in the third round Saturday night and saw the tears welling in the 15-year-old’s eyes. Seeing a bit of herself in the kid she’d just beaten 6-3, 6-0, Osaka, the tournament’s defending champion […]

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via BlackAmericaWeb: What a great victory in her first time playing at the U.S. Open……Coco Gauff defeated  Anastasia Potapova of Russia 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 in her debut at Flushing Meadows. Gauff was ranked 313th when she got a wild-card invitation into qualifying at Wimbledon, then became the youngest player in history to make it through […]

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via BlackAmericaWeb/CNN: Mom and racket-holding Dad joined two coaches and a hitting partner at Coco Gauff‘s practice session on a cloudy Sunday afternoon at the All England Club as the 15-year-old American prepared for what could be the toughest test yet of her hard-to-believe Grand Slam debut. A qualifier who is ranked 313th and the youngest […]