{"id":228502,"date":"2025-10-16T07:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/228502\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T07:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:38:10","slug":"rennae-stubbs-still-has-a-real-concern-for-coco-gauff-at-grand-slams-heading-into-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/228502\/","title":{"rendered":"Rennae Stubbs still has a real concern for Coco Gauff at Grand Slams heading into 2026\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Coco Gauff might still have something holding her back, despite winning her third WTA 1000 title just last week.<\/p>\n

Gauff beat Jessica Pegula to win the Wuhan Open<\/a>, bouncing straight back to form after her heavy defeat to Amanda Anisimova<\/a> in Beijing.<\/p>\n

The American did not even drop a set on this run, with Gauff continuing her impressive final record<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although Gauff has reiterated herself as a threat on the WTA Tour<\/a>, former doubles world number one Rennae Stubbs<\/a> thinks there may still be something that is holding her back.<\/p>\n

\"RennaePhoto by Tim Clayton\/Corbis via Getty ImagesRennae Stubbs raises her concern about Coco Gauff at Grand Slam tournaments<\/p>\n

Gauff\u2019s serve is often a big topic of conversation<\/a>, and it still was far from perfect at the Wuhan Open<\/a>, where she hit 27 unforced errors in her five matches.<\/p>\n

After watching her lose in the semifinals of the China Open<\/a>, Stubbs had questions for Gauff<\/a> and she still does not seem convinced by the two-time Grand Slam champion\u2019s recent performances.<\/p>\n

When speaking on her podcast, Stubbs spoke about the vulnerabilities in Gauff\u2019s<\/a> game and the stress it puts her under, suggesting that it could break down in the latter stages of Grand Slam tournaments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing about winning ugly is that it\u2019s so stressful,\u201d said Stubbs. \u201cAt some point, how much is she going to be able to take of, \u2018I can\u2019t get a serve in the court. I can\u2019t hit my forehand! It\u2019s not like I\u2019m a bit nervous today\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cJess Pegula\u2019s biggest issue is that her racket doesn\u2019t feel great, or she can\u2019t feel the ball, but she\u2019s never like I know I can\u2019t hit a serve. <\/p>\n

\u201cI would hate to walk out on the court and know that there were two weaknesses that were so glaring everyone knew about and as soon as I miss one or two of them be like \u2018everyone knows I can\u2019t hit my forehand in the court\u2019. <\/p>\n

\u201cHow many players in the top 10 are going I hope I can hit that shot in the court today? That is Coco. There were times she was double faulting again. That was in the semis and in the final. But she just keeps going. She is built different.<\/p>\n

\u201cI give her tons of credit. I love her. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s the right thing because at some point again, in a big match at the majors, is it going to hurt her though? That she hasn\u2019t worked on those things enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why is Coco Gauff still able to win with such a high number of double faults?<\/p>\n

Concerns over Gauff\u2019s serve are justified, as she has hit the most double faults on the WTA Tour<\/a> in 2025 by far.<\/p>\n

The closest player to Gauff in this statistic is Ekaterina Alexandrova, who has still hit 125 fewer double faults than Gauff this year.<\/p>\n

\"CocoPhoto by Robert Prange\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

While Gauff may be the weakest in this serving statistic compared to her rivals, where she really excels is on her serve.<\/p>\n

In terms of the percentage of points won on return in 2025, Gauff is leading on the WTA Tour of all players who have played more than 20 matches, and most importantly is ahead of the other players ranked inside the top five.<\/p>\n

Top five in the WTA RankingsDouble faults in 2025% Return Points Won in 20251. Aryna Sabalenka154 (1st)45.9% (3rd)2. Iga Swiatek226 (3rd)47.9% (2nd)3. Coco Gauff405 (5th)49.1% (1st)4. Amanda Anismova247 (4th)45.6% (4th)5. Jessica Pegula161 (2nd)45.2% (5th)<\/p>\n

Gauff finished the season last year in some fashion, winning both the China Open and the WTA Finals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After lifting the Wuhan Open title for the first time, Gauff will be hoping that her serving and forehand issues do not return again and she can retain her WTA Finals crown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Coco Gauff might still have something holding her back, despite winning her third…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[5113,10844,99,428,654],"class_list":{"0":"post-228502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-coco-gauff","9":"tag-rennae-stubbs","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228502","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=228502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}