Mboko<\/a>, she was punished. The Canadian romped to victory, winning 6-1 6-4 in 62 minutes.<\/p>\nTennis journalist Catherine Whitaker, speaking on The Tennis Podcast, noted the severe issue Gauff is struggling with: her serve.<\/p>\n
Whitaker said: \u201cThis is the only match all year where Coco Gauff hasn\u2019t broken serve. And frankly, right now, if she\u2019s not breaking serve, she doesn\u2019t stand a chance of winning a tennis match because of the state her own serve is in which is David, a very, very bad one.\u201d<\/p>\n
BBC tennis commentator David Law replied: \u201cYeah, I mean, I can\u2019t think of too many matches that I\u2019ve ever seen where somebody\u2019s hit 23 double faults [against Danielle Collins] in a three-set match and won it. And it\u2019s a great credit to her that she finds ways.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was struck by just how lost\u2026 she looked confused. She looked about why it\u2019s going wrong. I just detected somebody who is very confused right now and that must be a horrible feeling when you\u2019re as experienced as Coco Gauff is, that you\u2019ve won two Grand Slams, one of them quite recently. You\u2019ve come off the back of that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere has the game gone? How have you gone from grand slam champion to this in the space of three months and barely won matches. It\u2019s very surprising.\u201d<\/p>\n
Matt Roberts, a tennis journalist, added: \u201cI think what we\u2019ve learned about Coco Gauff in the last year or so is that she\u2019s probably never as high as you think she is, because the technical flaws are always lurking, and they can come in seemingly out of nowhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut then, she\u2019s never as low as you think she is either, because she\u2019s Coco Gauff and she\u2019s so resilient, she\u2019s so incredibly mentally strong and talented generally, that she can flip that form on its head and suddenly she can go and win a Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut what I would say is that she did find form before those slams, both times, you know, like, two years ago, Washington and Cincinnati, she won, and then she won the US Open as well. And obviously this year, she had the finals in Madrid and Rome, didn\u2019t she?<\/p>\n
\u201cSo she went into those slams off the back of some pretty recent, really big struggles with her game, but also just finding form in the nick of time. And I feel like for her to win the US Open. It does feel like Cincinnati is pretty big for her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coco Gauff\u2019s crucial Cincinnati Open<\/p>\n
If Coco Gauff is to find form ahead of the US Open, it has to be at the Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n
The American has history on her side: the Cincinnati Open marked Gauff\u2019s capturing of a first WTA 1000 title.<\/p>\n
At the 2023 Cincinnati Open, Gauff defeated the likes of Jasmine Paolini and Iga Swiatek<\/a> on her way to the final, before beating Karolina Muchova in straight sets to lift the title.<\/p>\n![\"Coco](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-1611820834-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by Ian Johnson\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n
As with any Grand Slam tournament, form is key. If Gauff cannot correct her wayward form at the Cincinnati Open, it is likely that she will struggle at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n
This point is proven by Gauff\u2019s own achievements: she went on to lift her maiden Grand Slam title at the 2023 US Open after winning the Cincinnati Open title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff has struggled to find form since lifting the French Open title in June. The world number…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,17581,4305,82,593,11368],"class_list":{"0":"post-47374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-open","11":"tag-coco-gauff","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-wta-tennis-players"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Photo by Minas Panagiotakis\/Getty Images<\/p>\n