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<\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\nGauff, the 2025 runner-up at the Foro Italico, struggled and was visibly unhappy at times, but eventually course corrected and moved past the promising Argentinian, 5-7 6-0 6-4.<\/p>\n
After the victory, which put her in the round of 16 in Rome and improved her overall record at the event to 19-6, Gauff was frank in discussion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a tough day for me,\u201d she said. \u201cOne of those days I just didn\u2019t feel motivated to go on the court. Then when you\u2019re on the court, you\u2019re motivated. You get too frustrated.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked if her struggles were physical or mental, Gauff said:<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, mental. Just personal things off court that I\u2019m just trying to get through, but then you also remember how much fun you have. I think my regret today was not enjoying the battle, for sure.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been going through it for a few months. I mean, good days and bad days, yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gauff later admitted that she prides herself on being transparent in her press conferences, but that she wasn\u2019t willing to give specific details on her struggles. A personal choice, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s difficult because I do like being transparent in the press,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m sure you guys maybe got that sense from me. I think it\u2019s important, too, because then you\u2019re going to be asked about it, you might be fine. Then you\u2019re going to be asked about it and I don\u2019t want to talk about that right now.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s one of those things I want to be transparent and vulnerable, I want people to know we show up when we\u2019re not always 100 percent perfect. It\u2019s a fine balance. My on-court stuff I like to talk about and be vulnerable about. Off court, just depends on the topic, really.\u201d<\/p>\n
The third seed will face either Iva Jovic or Taylor Townsend in the round of 16.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday in Rome, Coco Gauff took her personal problems on the court with her. Whatever they might…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-659343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659343","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=659343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}