{"id":97880,"date":"2025-08-20T22:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/97880\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T22:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:52:09","slug":"coco-gauff-shakes-up-her-team-after-shaky-serving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/97880\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff Shakes Up Her Team After Shaky Serving"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2014 Some quick news to report as the U.S. Open approaches: the top American player has made a change to her team on the eve of her country\u2019s biggest tournament.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Coco Gauff looking displeased in Cincinnati. (Photo by ZUMA\/Alamy)<\/p>\n

WTA No. 3 Coco Gauff has parted with one of her two coaches, Matt Daly.<\/p>\n

Daly confirmed the news to Bounces, saying that the decision had happened \u201crecently\u201d but wanting to let Gauff be the one to speak about her decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly have good things to say about Coco, enjoyed working\u00a0with\u00a0her,\u201d Daly told Bounces.<\/p>\n

ESPN also inaccurately reported on air<\/a> that Gauff had parted with her other coach, J.C. Faurel, but he remains on her team and was still on court with Gauff today at the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n

Any shake-up would have been a considerable surprise months ago, after Daly and Faurel coached Gauff to her second major singles title at the French Open in June.<\/p>\n

\"CocoCoco Gauff Inherits the Earth<\/a><\/p>\n

But tennis fortunes can change quickly: this is the second year in a row that a reigning French Open champion has dropped one of her coaches within months, after Iga Swiatek parted with Tomasz Wiktorowski in October last year.<\/p>\n

Gauff\u2019s struggles since her victory in Paris have been obvious. She lost both matches she played on grass, losing to Wang Xinyu in Berlin\u2014a win that aged well when Wang made the final\u2014 and then losing to Dayana Yastremska in the first round of Wimbledon. <\/p>\n

Gauff had a 4-2 singles record across the hard courts of Montreal and Cincinnati\u2014and won the doubles in Montreal alongside McCartney Kessler\u2014but her sporadic serving issues flared up again, hitting rafts of double faults. In her first match in Montreal, she hit double faults on 20.4 percent of service points; in her last match in Cincinnati, she hit double faults on 19.0 percent of service points.<\/p>\n

Gauff slipped from No. 2 to No. 3 in the WTA rankings after Iga Swiatek won the title in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n

There is reason for short-term optimism, however: Gauff has often found success quickly after making coaching changes. In 2023, Gauff hired Brad Gilbert and quickly won titles in Washington, Cincinnati, and the U.S. Open. When she began working late last year with Daly, a coach known best for his work on technique, she won titles in Beijing and the WTA Finals in Riyadh.<\/p>\n

Gauff was on court today at the U.S. Open with Gavin MacMillan, the biomechanics specialist who helped Aryna Sabalenka get out of her own double fault morass. (More on him at Bounces soon, fittingly!)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Gavin MacMillan on court with Coco Gauff today at the U.S Open (Photo by Nick McCarvel)<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading Bounces! Please do subscribe to get breaking news here and other stories in your inbox! -Ben<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Some quick news to report as the U.S. Open approaches: the top American player has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-97880","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\/97880","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=97880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}