{"id":225555,"date":"2025-10-15T03:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/225555\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T03:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:19:10","slug":"andy-roddick-states-what-is-weird-to-see-about-coco-gauffs-tennis-as-she-wins-again-in-wuhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/225555\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Roddick states what is ‘weird to see’ about Coco Gauff’s tennis as she wins again in Wuhan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When the chips are down, Coco Gauff can always be counted on to come up trumps. <\/p>\n

Gauff\u2019s record on hard courts is pretty remarkable in WTA<\/a> 1000 events, and the Wuhan Open<\/a> has now been added to her list of titles won. <\/p>\n

Gauff praised Jessica Pegula<\/a> after beating her in Wuhan, with the American rampant throughout the event. <\/p>\n

Steve Johnson was impressed with Gauff<\/a> during the latest WTA 1000 event, and the 21-year-old is once again in fine form, going into the WTA Finals<\/a> where she will defend her title. <\/p>\n

Andy Roddick has critiqued Gauff<\/a> at points across the year, but now he\u2019s made some positive comments about the world number three. <\/p>\n

\"CocoPhoto by Wang He\/Getty ImagesAndy Roddick thinks something is \u2018weird\u2019 with Coco Gauff\u2019s tennis<\/p>\n

Gauff failed to lose a single set last week on the way to another title, and in truth, she secured the title with relative ease. <\/p>\n

Now, the youngster will be suitably warmed up for the rest of the year, and perhaps the challenge will be to head into the Australian Open<\/a> with some momentum. <\/p>\n

Roddick has now shared on his Served podcast what he finds really weird about Gauff\u2019s tennis at the moment. <\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIt feels like we\u2019re always negative, and then she just wins stuff. It\u2019s weird in a way because everyone criticises Coco and, in a way, you should, it\u2019s weird to see someone who is two or three in the world double-fault like she has and go through those kinds of mental demons, even though we weren\u2019t supposed to call it that at the US Open, but I think it was. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think there are technical deficiencies, the forehand comes and goes and also, I don\u2019t think she gets enough credit for, when the trajectory on her backhand is straight through the court, and it can bruise you with this flat ball, and then mixing up this forehand and then slicing forehands and she\u2019s able to kind of bring your level down. <\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone talks about the Roland Garros final and goes, \u2018Well Sabalenka didn\u2019t play that well\u2019. She doesn\u2019t just not play well just because, there\u2019s a reason for it. Coco knows she can rely on her legs, she knows she can mix up paces on the forehand. When she\u2019s going right, that is very, very tough to deal with, when she\u2019s not missing that shot, it\u2019s very tough to deal with. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy opinion is that when people say \u2018you\u2019ve got to go after the forehand\u2019, I don\u2019t know. I really don\u2019t know. She kind of plays reverse tennis, it\u2019s like the backhand is the shot and the forehand if she didn\u2019t miss it ever\u2026she\u2019s a really tough customer! <\/p>\n

\u201cI thought she played well. I thought she had control of her ability to hit the ball flat on her forehand side and listen, Jess Pegula is one of the best ball strikers on earth. Also, Jess Pegula is not one of the taller players on earth, right? So you get it up and out of the zone, and it becomes frustrating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andy Roddick shares what he thinks will happen to Coco Gauff in future years<\/p>\n

Roddick made things clear about Gauff\u2019s serve<\/a> after her exit at the US Open and now he\u2019s doubled down on his former claims. <\/p>\n

Roddick was a quality server himself, and it would appear that he\u2019s firmly backing Gauff to tackle her demons when it comes to the serve she currently has. <\/p>\n

Gauff has served over 400 double faults this season, and to win a Grand Slam and a Masters 1000 doing such a thing is quite remarkable. <\/p>\n

Roddick said: \u201cCoco wins a Masters 1000 and it\u2019s like we don\u2019t talk about it when she wins. <\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, I do think and maybe I\u2019m in the minority right now, but I do think Coco will be a dominant server at some point in her career. I know I\u2019m redundant at this point, but I\u2019ve seen it, the ability is there, it will click, she\u2019s only 21. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen that comes around and clicks, the forehand will get better; we tend to get better as our career progresses, especially with our weaknesses. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s two and three in the world with two shots that come and go week to week. There is a place to criticise them right now, but in my mind, when those two things get 20-30% better, she\u2019s going to be a real problem; she\u2019s been top three and a champion with those deficiencies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover When the chips are down, Coco Gauff can always be counted on to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[5113,99,428],"class_list":["post-225555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-coco-gauff","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225555","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=225555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}