US Open<\/a>, the Grand Slam champion is ready for what this year\u2019s competition will bring.<\/p>\n\u201cNew York is always an event I do well in, just being an American and to have won it two years ago,\u201d Coco, 21, exclusively told E! News in an Aug. 20 interview. \u201cI\u2019m very excited. The energy in this city and the US Open is like no other. I\u2019m super excited to compete.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m enjoying these build-up days,\u201d she added. \u201cEvery year I always have something going on, so I enjoy interacting with the supporters. The fan interaction is the thing I\u2019m most excited for on and off the court.\u201d<\/p>\n
But their support isn\u2019t the only thing keeping her energized as she preps for the tournament. To kick off the action, Coco celebrated the release of her first-ever Naked Protein Pineapple Orange smoothie at her Coco\u2019s Corner pop-up in Soho Aug. 20. Inspired\u00a0by her mom Candi Gauff’s\u00a0fruit salad\u2014which went viral in 2023\u2014the drink\u00a0has become a courtside staple for the tennis star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff\u00a0is back in the New York groove. Indeed, after winning the 2023 US Open, the Grand Slam…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-101038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}