Coco Gauff has endured an exhausting US Open campaign, brought to a swift conclusion at the hands of Naomi Osaka.<\/p>\n
In all honesty, the crushing speed with which the Japanese superstar dispatched the 21-year-old was almost a mercy, especially given all she had already suffered before this fourth-round clash.<\/p>\n
Coco Gauff<\/a> admitted to having had a panic attack midway through her win over Donna Vekic, and against Naomi Osaka<\/a>, she looked lost, completely devoid of ideas of how to hurt her opponent.<\/p>\n This has led some to make a bold claim about her immediate future within the sport, particularly given she has only just hired a new coach.<\/p>\n Rick Macci, famed for his work developing Serena and Venus Williams as youngsters, has now weighed in on this debate.<\/p>\n Coco Gauff told by some to skip the rest of 2025<\/p>\n Sparked by plenty of fans, and even picked up by a multiple Grand Slam champion in Rennae Stubbs, they came together to implore Gauff to skip the rest of the 2025 season<\/a> in order to prioritise training with Gavin MacMillan.<\/p>\n After all, this biomechanics coach has been brought in with the expectation that he will work miracles on her misfiring serve and forehand.<\/p>\n Asked if Coco should shut it down the rest of the year and focus on the technical issues that bubble up under pressure. 100% SHE SHOULD NOT. Coco has had a great year with titles and a Slam. Sometimes when you try to solve a problem you create a different one. Coco will be fine\u2026<\/p>\n \u2014 Rick Macci (@RickMacci) September 2, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n View Tweet<\/p>\n Macci, however, found this suggestion ridiculous, and took to X to write: \u201cAsked if Coco should shut it down the rest of the year and focus on the technical issues that bubble up under pressure. 100% SHE SHOULD NOT. <\/p>\n \u201cCoco has had a great year with titles and a Slam. Sometimes when you try to solve a problem you create a different one. Coco will be fine because she is cut from a different cloth.\u201d<\/p>\n Gauff hired MacMillan right before the US Open started<\/a>, and so is yet to enjoy a clear training block where her full focus is on his teachings.<\/p>\n Coco Gauff says what she\u2019s going to do now after the US Open<\/p>\n Realistically, all this speculation and conjecture is pointless anyway, given Gauff actually told reporters what she plans to do now the US Open<\/a> is over.<\/p>\n Speaking at her press conference after the loss to Osaka, the youngster admitted: \u201cI have no choice but to do a training block between now and Beijing, it\u2019s just the next tournament that I am signed up for.<\/p>\n \u201cI have said this every year, after the US Open, for me it\u2019s just improvement mode and to get ready for Australia.<\/p>\n \u201cI had good results last year after the US Open, and I think that\u2019s because \u2013 I don\u2019t want to say didn\u2019t care because those tournaments deserve effort \u2013 but it\u2019s just your mindset is different once the slams are over.<\/p>\n \u201cSo whatever happens for the rest of the year, I just want it to be an improvement. I don\u2019t care results-wise.<\/p>\n \u201cLast year, if you told me I would go win in Beijing and the WTA Finals, I would have been like whatever because I didn\u2019t really care going into it. So I am probably going to have that same mindset, and if I do well, I\u2019ll do well, like I did last year and if not, then not.<\/p>\n \u201cBut for me, the main improvements that I get are from how I do at the Slams.\u201d<\/p>\n