{"id":314015,"date":"2025-11-26T03:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/314015\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T03:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:12:15","slug":"coco-gauff-teaches-surprise-tennis-clinic-for-kids-at-refurbished-court-in-new-orleans-east-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/314015\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff Teaches Surprise Tennis Clinic for Kids at Refurbished Court in New Orleans East \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Richard Pagliaro | Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Photo credit: Jennifer Pottheiser\/USTA<\/p>\n

Coco Gauff spent part of Thanksgiving week giving back to junior players.<\/p>\n

The reigning Roland Garros champion surprised a local tennis clinic in New Orleans East on Monday, visiting the tennis facility that was recently refurbished in her honor.<\/p>\n

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The 10 courts at Joe Brown Park were refurbished earlier this year as part of the US Open Legacy Initiative, which was launched in recognition of Gauff\u2019s 2023 US Open women\u2019s singles title.<\/p>\n

As part of the initiative, the USTA pledged $3 million\u2013equivalent to Gauff\u2019s prize money in 2023\u2013to refurbish public tennis courts across the country. The New Orleans project was hand-picked by the Gauff family due to the family\u2019s extensive ties to the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Orleans has a super close place in my heart and to be able to be back here is really cool,\u201d said Coco Gauff. \u201cTo be able to do this initiative with the USTA is amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Photo credit: Jennifer Pottheiser\/USTA<\/p>\n

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Photo credit: Jennifer Pottheiser\/USTA<\/p>\n

Two-time Grand Slam champion Gauff grew up playing on public courts in her hometown of Delray Beach, Florida and understand how transformative public park tennis can be for junior players.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe US Open Legacy Initiative, and the celebration of our 2023 Women\u2019s Singles Champion Coco Gauff, has allowed us to support more than 100 facilities across the country and connect the highest level of our sport to local communities, said Brian Vahaly, Chairman of the Board and Interim Co-CEO, USTA. \u201cBy refurbishing the public courts at Joe W. Brown Park, we are expanding access to the game and giving more players a better place to play.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are grateful to partner with New Orleans on this project and proud to support a facility that will benefit the community for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s event featured a clinic run by local non-profit A\u2019s and Aces, which offers programs and events at the Joe W. Brown Park courts. A\u2019s & Aces is a chapter of the USTA Foundation\u2019s National Junior Tennis & Learning network, which features more than 270 organizations nationwide that offer free or low-cost tennis, education, and life-skills programming to young people from under-resourced communities.<\/p>\n

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Photo credit: Jennifer Pottheiser\/USTA<\/p>\n

Former WTA Finals champion Gauff hit with the kids at the clinic, encouraged them and spoke to them about impactful experiences she\u2019s had in her tennis career.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the USTA said: \u201cThe event not only served as a celebration of the New Orleans project, but also marked the conclusion of the US Open Legacy Initiative, which hit its $3 million funding goal this summer. In total, the Legacy Initiative impacted more than 100 facilities, funding improvements for more than 700 tennis courts across the country. Each impacted facility received a plaque noting the courts were refurbished in honor of Gauff\u2019s US Open triumph.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Tuesday, November 25, 2025Photo credit: Jennifer Pottheiser\/USTA Coco Gauff spent part of Thanksgiving week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-314015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314015","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=314015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}