{"id":30509,"date":"2025-07-29T17:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30509\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T17:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:48:10","slug":"coco-gauff-picks-out-the-two-best-female-doubles-players-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30509\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff picks out the two best female doubles players in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Coco Gauff is set to play her first match since Wimbledon in the opening round of the Canadian Open, where she will take on Danielle Collins. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/andy-roddick-reacts-to-coco-gauffs-surprise-early-exit-at-wimbledon-as-he-makes-point-about-her-french-open-title\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gauff crashed out in the first round<\/a> at the All England Club, suffering a straight-sets defeat to Dayana Yastremska, recording her joint-worst finish ever in SW19. <\/p>\n<p>Following a disappointing grass season, she is back in North America for the hard-court swing, where she\u2019ll look to add more titles to her name.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time Grand Slam champion chose not to play at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/Washington-Open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Open<\/a>, where one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/coco-gauff\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gauff<\/a>\u2018s US compatriots has continued to shine on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/wta\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTA<\/a> doubles tour.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222344743-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Coco Gauff reacts during her defeat to Dayana Yastremska at Wimbledon in 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-107794\" \/>Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS\/AFP via Getty ImagesCoco Gauff says who she thinks are the world\u2019s best doubles players<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Townsend clinched yet another title in D.C., partnered with Zhang Shuai, and became the world number one in doubles.<\/p>\n<p>In her pre-tournament press conference, Gauff said of Townsend: \u201cIt\u2019s super cool [for Taylor to get number one ranking]. I have known Taylor for a long, long time and I always root to her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was really happy. I have always considered her one of the best doubles players, right there with Siniakova as the best on tour, so it is great to see that ranking match where I think a lot of players see her as.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe deserves it all. I played with her and I don\u2019t think I helped that much because I think we lost in the quarters and I didn\u2019t play that well with her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think she is hopefully going to stay there for a long time, and her and Katarina are a great team together. I am really proud of her.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Townsend and Katerina Siniakova\u2019s Grand Slam results<\/p>\n<p>Up until last season, Townsend had made two Grand Slam finals in doubles, finishing as the runner-up with Caty McNally at the US Open in 2022, and with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/Leylah-Fernandez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leylah Fernandez<\/a> at Roland Garros in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, however, she teamed up with Katerina Siniakova and secured a maiden major title at Wimbledon with the Czech star.<\/p>\n<p>After bowing out in the semi-finals at Flushing Meadows that year, the two won the Australian Open together in 2025. <\/p>\n<p>They have since made the quarter-finals at Roland Garros and reached the final four at Wimbledon earlier this summer.  <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff is set to play her first match since Wimbledon in the opening round of the Canadian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,18937,28821,85,18936,747,2637],"class_list":{"0":"post-30509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-coco-gauff","11":"tag-katerina-siniakova","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-taylor-townsend","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}