{"id":736204,"date":"2026-08-13T02:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736204\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T02:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:30:21","slug":"coco-gauff-on-her-oura-ring-us-open-hopes-and-her-love-island-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736204\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff on her Oura Ring, US Open Hopes, and Her Love Island Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

This month, Coco Gauff<\/a> is in a really good headspace. When talking about the upcoming US Open<\/a>, the two-time Grand Slam singles champion reflects on last year, which she says was \u201ca very stressful tournament.\u201d Gauff was in the process of changing how she serves while competing, which just took a toll mentally. \u201cI didn\u2019t really get to enjoy [last year\u2019s US Open] that much,\u201d she says over Zoom. \u201cThis time around, I feel more comfortable in my game. So I\u2019m hoping that I can have more fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an era where optimization is the obsession, Gauff says she\u2019s taking a much more relaxed approach to her stats. It\u2019s with that grounded and present attitude that made a partnership with smart ring brand Oura<\/a> a natural fit. Today, she joins fellow American tennis player Taylor Fritz as the brand\u2019s newest ambassadors, with campaigns highlighting their journeys on-and-off the court and Gauff showcasing her love of reading and family legacy as part of her evolution.<\/p>\n

Gauff started using an Oura ring a year ago, before this opportunity came into fruition, something she might\u2019ve unknowingly manifested. \u201cIt\u2019s funny because I lost [my Oura ring] around the same time the conversation of partnering up started,\u201d she says. \u201cI was using it a lot. I think it\u2019s just so good to track what I have going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now she\u2019s upgraded to the newer, sleeker, and thinner Oura Ring 5<\/a>, a ring that she doesn\u2019t wear during matches (\u201cI\u2019ve been thinking about it,\u201d she concedes), and mainly uses it to track her REM and how much deep sleep she\u2019s getting regularly. She tries to get around the same amount of hours of sleep each night, but doesn\u2019t have a hard number that she sticks to. She just pays attention to when she isn\u2019t feeling as well-rested as she\u2019d like. \u201cI feel like you can get a little crazy trying to make your score go up,\u201d she says. \u201cSometimes you\u2019re playing a tournament and you\u2019re not going to be able to catch up on your rest because the schedule unfortunately doesn\u2019t allow it. So it\u2019s just finding the balance.\u201d<\/p>\n

She\u2019s also learning to listen to her body more. While training hard was the main focus when she was younger, the 22-year-old is making rest more of a priority for the sake of her physical and mental health. \u201cNumbers don’t lie. So you can be like, \u2018Oh, I want to train more.\u2019 And it’s like, wait, but your body doesn’t actually need that. So maybe you should listen to that instead of listening to the false rhetoric that the more you train, the better you are. Which yes, but also rest is even more important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gauff just beat Belinda Bencic at the 2026 Canadian Open to advance to the semi-finals and is focused on the next match. But as for how she decompresses outside of tennis, she\u2019s a huge movie lover, recently seeing The Odyssey and raving about Spider-Man: Brand New Day. \u201cI thought it was Tom [Holland]\u2019s best one,\u201d she says. \u201cActing and everything-wise.\u201d And like the masses, she is always tapped in on Love Island US<\/a>. \u201cI voted for Brinity to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gauff also likes activities that stimulate the mind. She actually spent the day before the start of the Canadian Open last week at an Escape Room with her family. \u201cIt was pretty easy, honestly,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was a haunted mummy theme, but I had to choose an easy room because I was with my family.\u201d I then tell her about Escape Rooms that double as real haunted houses, where one signs a waiver giving staff okay to interact and distract you while you try to escape. \u201cI\u2019m not that intense,\u201d she laughs. \u201cBut honestly, it does intrigue my interest.\u201d Should she decide to do those ones, she says she\u2019ll post it online for all of us to follow along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This month, Coco Gauff is in a really good headspace. When talking about the upcoming US Open, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[370,101,118,56,54,55,6545,7268],"class_list":["post-736204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sleep","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-open","tag-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}