PARIS \u2014 Coco Gauff was involved in a car accident on the way to Roland Garros for the first match of her French Open title defense. She did not appear injured.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got in a mini car accident on my way to the site today,\u201d Gauff told TNT Sports with a laugh. \u201cWe ran into a (pole). You felt a little impact. I spilled my juice all over the car.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe car was not drivable. So we ended up taking a taxi,\u201d Gauff added after beating fellow American Taylor Townsend 6-4, 6-0.<\/p>\n
Gauff started her match earlier than expected when there was a retirement in another match on Court Philippe-Chatrier.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then right before I went onto court, my dress got stuck, so my physio was in the bathroom trying to help me take it off,\u201d Gauff said. \u201cIt was an eventful day. But I feel like whenever that happens, it lets you not think about the match too match. I\u2019m just happy to be here in one piece.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gauff beat Aryna Sabalenka in last year\u2019s title match in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS \u2014 Coco Gauff was involved in a car accident on the way to Roland Garros for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-668636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668636","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=668636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}