{"id":789991,"date":"2026-07-09T21:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/789991\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T21:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:22:10","slug":"what-would-make-coco-gauffs-life-easier-at-the-majors-fewer-three-setters-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/789991\/","title":{"rendered":"What Would Make Coco Gauff\u2019s Life Easier at the Majors? Fewer Three-Setters \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coco Gauff left it all out there at Wimbledon – no regrets – but five three-setters to reach the final is a big ask, says Mary Joe Fernandez.<\/p>\n

A poorly executed drop shot on match point is the moment that will haunt Coco Gauff for days to come, maybe longer. But it isn\u2019t the only thing that Gauff can improve.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Asked to give her opinion on Gauff\u2019s run to her first career Wimbledon semifinal on Thursday, Mary Joe Fernandez said that mission number one should be to find ways to win matches without too much drama.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The former World No.4 pointed out that Gauff\u2019s serve was vastly improved during Wimbledon, and it could open the door to more decisive tennis \u2013 and scorelines. She added that Gauff is human, she\u2019s not the first player to make an unforced error on match point at Wimbledon and she won\u2019t be the last. She also pointed out how well Gauff handled the tough moments in her post-match press conference. How she put her maturity on display and looked at a difficult moment with perspective.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a painful story,\u201d Gauff said. \u201cI think thousands of people would love to lose the semifinals at Wimbledon on match point. This is something I wouldn\u2019t love to experience again, for sure no. I think it will make my next moment when I win a match like this even sweeter. I had a match earlier this year, I saved six match points.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just one of those days where it didn\u2019t go my way. Somebody had to lose, and unfortunately it was me today.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Gauff\u2019s loss means she has fallen to 25-8 in three-setters overall at the Grand Slams, and 19-4 since the start of 2023. That\u2019s an incredible record, but one that she leans on too often.<\/p>\n

Asked to pinpoint what she\u2019d like to see from Gauff at the majors going forward, Fernandez said a few easy wins could be the key.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMy other takeaway is that she plays too many three-set matches,\u201d Fernandez said. \u201cThis was her fifth in a row in the tournament, and at some point, you have to be able to play a complete match from start to finish. You have to clean up the weakness. You just can\u2019t have so many ups and downs, because that drains you.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is just so tiring that you have to keep coming back, coming back, and just playing all those pressure moments. Going forward, I\u2019d like to see Coco just manage this forehand a little bit better and continue to improve on the serve \u2013 she did have the bad double-fault in the tie break. I think that sort of brought her down \u2013\u00a0 just somehow\u2026 more straight-set wins.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former Wimbledon semifinalist Sam Querrey, also on the ESPN desk after the match, echoed those sentiments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you watch Sabalenka and Swiatek run through these tournaments, they get through those first rounds 6-2,6-1,\u201d he said, agreeing with Fernandez. \u201cShe needs less stressful moments before heading into the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals of these majors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chris Oddo. Chris Oddo is a freelance sportswriter, podcaster, blogger and social media marker who is a lead contributor to Tennisnow.com. He also writes for USOpen.org, Rolandgarros.com, BNPParibasOpen.com, TennisTV.com, WTAtennis.com and the official US Open program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff left it all out there at Wimbledon – no regrets – but five three-setters to reach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-789991","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\/789991","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=789991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}