{"id":126409,"date":"2025-09-02T04:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T04:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/126409\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T04:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T04:33:06","slug":"coco-gauff-kind-of-broke-down-after-us-open-loss-to-naomi-osaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/126409\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff &#8216;kind of broke down&#8217; after US Open loss to Naomi Osaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coco Gauff acknowledged the emotional toll she felt following her <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/01\/sports\/naomi-osaka-dominates-coco-gauff-in-us-open-statement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Open loss to Naomi Osaka<\/a> on Monday, telling reporters that she \u201ckind of broke down\u201d to her team before allowing herself to take in some more of the positives of her run at this year\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Osaka <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/01\/sports\/naomi-osaka-dominates-coco-gauff-in-us-open-statement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defeated Gauff 3-6, 2-6<\/a> in Flushing Meadows in the fourth round.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.37449664;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36994178\" width=\"811\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/coco-gauff-usa-walks-off-110512731.jpg\" alt=\"Coco Gauff leaving the court after a US Open tennis match.\" class=\"wp-image-36994178\"  \/>Coco Gauff leaving the court after a US Open tennis match against Naomi Osaka on Monday. Larry Marano\/UPI\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that trying to be more positive. After the match I was really disappointed,\u201d Gauff said. \u201cKind of broke down to my team. Then hearing their perspectives and everything, it definitely is a lot of positive things. I think if I kept the way I was going in Cincinnati to here, I would have been out the first round. So I think where my serve started from the start of the tournament to today was a big improvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like now I just have to get everything to work together. But, yeah, I knew going in it was going to be a tough tournament for me. Did I feel like I had a lot of confidence after my last match? Yeah, definitely. I think that was a big confidence booster. So today feels more disappointing, I think, than maybe it would have felt losing in the first or second round.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gauff, who had started the tournament on shaky ground with her serve, played well, but still made 33 unforced errors compared to Osaka\u2019s 12.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36994181\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/reacts-match-naomi-osaka-jpn-110508544.jpg\" alt=\"Coco Gauff wiping her eyes during a tennis match.\" class=\"wp-image-36994181\"  \/>Coco Gauff (USA) reacts during her match against Naomi Osaka (JPN) in the fourth round in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Day 9 at the 2025 US Open Tennis Championship on Monday, Sept. 1, 2025 for the NY POST<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 U.S. Open has been a roller coaster of emotions for Gauff, who played to a strong performance in the previous round against No. No. 28 Magdalena Frech and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/28\/sports\/coco-gauff-breaks-down-in-tears-mid-match-in-emotional-scene\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">also broke down in tears<\/a> during her second round match against Donna Vekic before ultimately beating her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor sure it was not the level that I wanted to bring, but it is a step in the right direction I feel, and I think emotionally how much this week was, I think today I just stepped in, and I maybe was a little bit empty. She forced me to earn every point out there today,\u201d Gauff said.<\/p>\n<p>Osaka advanced to play Karol\u00edna Muchov\u00e1 in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff acknowledged the emotional toll she felt following her U.S. Open loss to Naomi Osaka on Monday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5113,99,428,14687],"class_list":{"0":"post-126409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-coco-gauff","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-us-open-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126409","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=126409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}