{"id":695712,"date":"2026-05-26T13:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/695712\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:08:08","slug":"coco-gauff-from-child-prodigy-to-champion-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/695712\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff, from child prodigy to champion &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>10 things to know about Coco Gauff<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 She was born on 13 March 2004 in Delray Beach (Florida, US) and began playing tennis at the age of 6.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 She was the youngest finalist in junior girls\u2019 singles at the US Open in 2017, aged 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 She rose to world junior No. 1 in July 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In 2019, she beat Venus Williams in the first round of Wimbledon, at the age of just 15.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In 2023, at 19 years old, she won her first Grand Slam title at the US Open.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In 2025, for the third year running, she ranked as the best paid female athlete, combining her earnings from tennis and advertising contracts.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 As a philanthropist, she supports a wide range of causes, getting involved in particular in initiatives promoting education. During the 2026 Australian Open, she pledged $150,000 to the United Negro College Fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 She has worked with French coach Jean-Christophe Faurel since 2024 (after an initial period from March 2019 to December 2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"10 things to know about Coco Gauff \u2022 She was born on 13 March 2004 in Delray Beach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-695712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695712","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=695712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}