{"id":669907,"date":"2026-05-28T10:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669907\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:26:19","slug":"coco-gauff-gets-win-despite-mini-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669907\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff Gets Win Despite &#8216;Mini Car Accident&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Coco Gauff was involved in a car accident on the way to Roland Garros for the first match of her French Open title defense on Tuesday. She did not appear injured. &#8220;We got in a mini car accident on my way to the site today,&#8221; Gauff told TNT Sports with a laugh. &#8220;We ran into a (pole). You felt a little impact. I spilled my juice all over the car.&#8221; &#8220;The car was not drivable. So we ended up taking a taxi,&#8221; Gauff added after beating fellow American Taylor Townsend 6-4, 6-0. <\/p>\n<p> Gauff started her match earlier than expected when there was a retirement in another match on Court Philippe-Chatrier, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/article\/9b0f78f989808cc800e292093b09e6bd\/coco-gauff-involved-in-mini-car-accident-on-her-way-to-french-open-match-still-gets-win.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AP<\/a> reports. &#8220;And 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,&#8221; Gauff said. &#8220;It was an eventful day. But I feel like whenever that happens, it lets you not think about the match too much. I&#8217;m just happy to be here in one piece.&#8221; Gauff beat Aryna Sabalenka in last year&#8217;s title match in Paris. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Coco Gauff was involved in a car accident on the way to Roland Garros for the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[5113,4039,99,428],"class_list":["post-669907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-coco-gauff","tag-french-open","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669907","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=669907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}