Gauff calls for greater privacy after clip goes viral<\/a><\/p>\nCoco Gauff loses her cool in the tunnels of Melbourne Park, only for it to be broadcast around the world on live TV.<\/p>\n
Roddick said Gauff should have been afforded a moment in private where she could deal with the loss immediately after leaving the court.<\/p>\n
“Can she go somewhere, where she can just detonate?” he said on his podcast Served with Andy Roddick.<\/p>\n
“Can she just be allowed to be pissed? Also can be there a unisex place for people to have private conversation and\/or break something?”<\/p>\n
Retired Australian professional John Millman also showed support for Gauff.<\/p>\n
“Maybe there should be a room where you can do that privately, where the cameras aren’t,” Millman said on the Nine Network.<\/p>\n
“But let’s not blow this out of proportion. She was letting off a bit of steam because she was hugely frustrated with her performance.<\/p>\n
“I just think that is normal behaviour.”<\/p>\n
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Coco Gauff told reporters players deserved privacy. (Getty Images: Robert Prange)<\/p>\n
Tood Woodbridge, who won 16 majors in doubles, said players needed some leeway, given the emotion toll a loss could take.<\/p>\n
“I’m sure she’s pretty upset about having that out there,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It does show the emotion that she cares but it’s not a great look. I’ve done it and you don’t feel good about doing it.<\/p>\n
“But I would like to think they [players] can get off the court and go somewhere, where there isn’t a camera.”<\/p>\n
Gauff said she would never smash a racquet on court during a match because it was not a “good representation” and children could be watching.<\/p>\n
The women’s world number three also said she did not want to lash out at her support team.<\/p>\n
“They’re good people. They don’t deserve that and I know I’m emotional,” Gauff said.<\/p>\n
“I know I need to let out that emotion.<\/p>\n
“Otherwise, I’m just going to be snappy with the people around me and I don’t want to do that \u2026 they did their best, I did mine.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former men’s world number one Andy Roddick is among the ex-players supporting Coco Gauff after footage was shown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17739,64,63,6571,18937,41733,52193,21100,229855,85,747,229856],"class_list":["post-442087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-andy-roddick","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-open","tag-coco-gauff","tag-elina-svitolina","tag-media-conference","tag-racquet","tag-smashed-racquet","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tood-woodbridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442087","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=442087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}