Andy Roddick has defended Gauff<\/a> over the years and now, Jimmy Arias has echoed some thoughts from Roddick, suggesting he was shocked at something she started to do prior to the US Open. <\/p>\nHe said on the Inside-In Podcast: \u201cI definitely would not be going over biomechanics days before the US Open. She was there practicing, you have no idea, for hours and hours and hours every day trying to get ready.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was thinking at the time watching it, it was the forehand as well, she is trying to break down her forehand technically as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd to have technical thoughts while you are trying to win a major seemed impossible and in the end I think it proved to be impossible for her.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmotionally she is in a difficult state because I\u2019m sure walking out on to the court she has this thought that I might not put a serve in. I might not put a forehand in. And the panic that causes is too much for most people. It seemed like it was almost too much for her.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully she can get herself the way that Sabalenka was able to fix the serve.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other player who did that was Djokovic, he had a year or so when he couldn\u2019t get a serve in, and Zverev. There has been a few players who couldn\u2019t hit a second serve.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo hopefully Gauff can become that strong mentally and find the tip that fixes the rhythm on her serve because that is the key. The serve is all about the kinetic chain and getting the rhythm right and when you start getting tight, for her she tends to pull down and bad things happen from there.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf she gets that right, she is such a good athlete, she is next level compared to everyone else on tour.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is winning matches and won a major this year and she has two giant holes in her game right now.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it helps that everyone talks about it, by the way. She is aware that everyone says your serve and your forehand, so she\u2019s playing a match and I\u2019m sure every ball is coming to her forehand and she has to be in her head.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gauff must address serve flaws if she\u2019s to dominate like Aryna Sabalenka<\/p>\n
The world number three is still in a very good place with two major titles to her name at the age of 21. <\/p>\n
There is a sense, however, that she should have more than two big titles to her name given the vast amount of potential she clearly possesses. <\/p>\n
Gauff can be the dominant force that starts picking up major titles on a more frequent basis but she simply has to rectify the uncertainties over her serve. <\/p>\n
Given her age and ability, she is more than capable but the next few months, working on her game, should be the most important period of her career and could have a major impact on what sort of career she eventually has. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff might have won the French Open back in June, but remarkably, she\u2019s still striving for consistency.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[5113,99,428,654],"class_list":{"0":"post-150089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-coco-gauff","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150089","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=150089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU\/AFP via Getty ImagesCoco Gauff critiqued for something she did hours before US Open<\/p>\n