Coco Gauff will see a drop in her singles rankings from a career-high place of 11 after the quarter-final defeat by the hands of eventual champion Simona Halep in Toronto.
Coco Gauff will grow to be new world no.1 in girls’s doubles. (AP Photo)
HIGHLIGHTSCoco Gauff and Jessica Pegula gained the Canadian Open title in girls’s doublesGauff will see a drop in her singles rankings after quarter-final loss in TorontoGauff admitted that as a child she did not find out about separate singles & doubles rankings
American teenager Coco Gauff will grow to be the brand new world primary in girls’s doubles on Monday after profitable the title on the Canadian Open with compatriot Jessica Pegula on the weekend.
The 18-year-old Gauff will displace Elise Mertens from the highest spot within the rankings. Gauff and Pegula defeated Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Ellen Perez within the last of the US Open warm-up match.
Gauff is the second youngest participant to achieve the primary rank in girls’s doubles after Martina Hingis, who achieved the feat on the age of 17 in 1998.
The French Open finalist Gauff mentioned: “As a kid, I’m going to be honest with you, I didn’t even know there was separate rankings for singles and doubles. But when I got on tour and when I realised I could do well in doubles … I wanted to. I mean, who wouldn’t want to be number one in anything?”
Gauff and Pegula, who reached the French Open last this yr, confirmed that they might pair up for the remainder of the season the place their schedules allowed. This means they might look to grow to be the primary all-American workforce to clinch the ladies’s doubles title on the US Open since Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond in 2011.
“That would be pretty cool. We were close at the French Open. But I don’t want to put any pressure on ourselves. I think we play the best when we just take it one match at a time and one point at a time,” Gauff mentioned.
Gauff, nevertheless, will see a drop in her singles rankings from a career-high place of 11 after a quarter-final defeat by the hands of eventual champion Simona Halep in Toronto.
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