NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Coco Gauff was caught by surprise when she saw her mom take to social media about excessive U.S. Open ticket requests from family and friends.<\/p>\n
That doesn\u2019t mean she has any issue with it.<\/p>\n
A day after Candi Gauff posted on a \u201cblunt but necessary statement\u201d on Instagram saying her daughter\u2019s tickets for the Grand Slam tournament were spoken for, Coco defended the sentiment.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, it was needed, and it was directed towards a few family and friends,\u201d Gauff said Friday. \u201cPeople come out of the woodwork. You haven\u2019t spoken to someone for years. They don\u2019t say, \u2018Congrats\u2019 or, \u2018Happy birthday\u2019 or nothing. Then they\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m in New York, can I have 8 tickets to your match in your box, please?\u201d<\/p>\n
Gauff is coming off winning the Cincinnati Open and initially thought her mother\u2019s post \u2014 which included a photo of her holding the trophy \u2014 was a sweet message about that victory. Instead, Candi Gauff had a point to make.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, I will not be able to hook you up with a ticket,\u201d she wrote. \u201cPlease make arrangements to purchase a ticket. Side note, never ask for more than 2 tickets. Coco is grown now and she has her own friends that she is honoring (with) tickets for the match. Thank you for your continued support.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coco Gauff won the U.S. Open in 2023, is ranked fourth in the world and is seeded fourth this year in women\u2019s singles. As the most prominent American at the tournament, she is a fixture at Arthur Ashe Stadium and any of her matches instantly become a hot ticket.<\/p>\n
Her parents and others on her team deal with most of the messages, shielding her from another unwelcome distraction.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe try our best to accommodate everyone, but some of the requests, you would be surprised at how absurd they are,\u201d Gauff said. \u201cI feel like my mom hit a tipping point because it\u2019s been going on since 15, and they really are my safeguards and I am lucky they try to make sure no one is hitting up my phone, so I don\u2019t really get many requests.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rather than deal with more of them from distant relatives or friends from elementary school, Gauff said her mom \u201cwanted to post that because she is going to stop responding. At least they know why.\u201d<\/p>\n
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See AP\u2019s full tennis coverage here <\/p>\n
Stephen Whyno, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Coco Gauff was caught by surprise when she saw her mom take to social…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-874915","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\/874915","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=874915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}