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Coco Gauff says she has extra work to do after shedding on the Australian Open
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Coco Gauff says she has extra work to do after shedding on the Australian Open

Last updated: January 21, 2025 4:10 pm
Editorial Board Published January 21, 2025
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By HOWARD FENDRICH

MELBOURNE — Coco Gauff’s retooled forehand and serve deserted her within the worst approach and on the worst time on the Australian Open. The unforced errors simply stored accumulating Tuesday, and so did the double-faults and break factors, typically adopted by a palm positioned over her eyes or a slap to a thigh.

Add all of it up, and Gauff’s journey to Melbourne Park — and her 13-match successful streak that dated to late final season — ended within the quarterfinals. By no means in a position to take management on a sizzling afternoon in Rod Laver Enviornment, the 2023 U.S. Open champion was eradicated by No. 11 Paula Badosa of Spain 7-5, 6-4.

Utilizing tweaks to some key strokes, and a change to her teaching crew after a disappointing finish to her title protection in New York in September, the 20-year-old Gauff arrived in Australia with hopes of incomes a second Grand Slam title.

“I feel like (at the) U.S. Open, I was playing with no solution, so that was more the frustrating part. Today, I feel like I’m playing with solutions; I know what I need to work on. U.S. Open, I needed to work on my serve. Not saying that my serve is where I want it to be, but I worked on it; obviously, a big improvement. So I want to continue working on that, continue working on playing aggressive,” Gauff mentioned.

“So I feel like I’m on the road to the right way, right path,” she mentioned. “Even though I lost today, I feel like I’m in an upward trajectory.”

The American entered Tuesday with a 9-0 document in 2025; she additionally gained her final 4 matches of final season to gather the trophy on the WTA Finals in November.

“Just a lot more work to do,” Gauff mentioned after the 1-hour, 43-minute loss to Badosa, who had been 0-2 in Grand Slam quarterfinals. “I’m obviously disappointed, but I’m not completely crushed.”

Badosa now heads to her first Grand Slam semifinal at age 27 — and fewer than a 12 months after she was considering retirement due to a stress fracture in her again that took what felt like ceaselessly to heal and didn’t initially reply to cortisone injections.

“I wanted to (give) it a last try,” Badosa mentioned, “Well, here I am. So I’m really proud of what we went through with all my team and especially how I (fought) through all that, especially mentally.”

In Thursday’s semifinals, she’s going to go up towards her shut pal, No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, the two-time defending champion in Melbourne. Sabalenka stretched her successful streak within the event to 19 matches by getting previous No. 27 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-2, 2-6, 6-3.

Novak Djokovic reached his fiftieth Grand Slam semifinal as he pursues a document twenty fifth trophy at a serious, getting previous Carlos Alcaraz 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 throughout greater than 3 1/2 hours in a match that ended at practically 1 a.m. Djokovic took a medical timeout late within the first set to get his left leg taped however later mentioned he ultimately felt higher due to capsules he was given by the event physician.

Djokovic will now face No. 2 Alexander Zverev, a two-time finalist at different majors, on Friday. Zverev obtained to the ultimate 4 in Melbourne for the third time since 2020 by beating No. 12 Tommy Paul 7-6 (1), 7-6 (0), 2-6, 6-1. Paul was one level from taking the primary set, then some extent from taking the second, however couldn’t shut the deal, and Zverev was merely superior within the ensuing tiebreakers.

Badosa was damage throughout a apply on the event in Rome in Might 2023, shortly after she started working with coach Pol Toledo. A 12 months later, together with a number of months off the tour, there nonetheless had been points.

“The reality is that the back was not responding. We couldn’t find a solution. Paula was frustrated,” Toledo mentioned. “I was like: This is not working. I don’t know what we have to do.”

Counting on a brand new physician, health coach and nutritionist, Badosa tried completely different workouts and dietary supplements, and her again improved.

“The puzzle,” she mentioned, “started to look better.”

On Tuesday, she stored the strain on Gauff, who completed with 41 unforced errors, together with six double-faults and 28 missed forehands. Badosa compiled 10 break factors and gained 4 of Gauff’s service video games. Gauff, in the meantime, by no means earned a lot as a single break level till after already down a set and a break.

One key recreation — and one which illustrated Gauff’s issues on this afternoon — began the second set. It lasted 22 factors unfold over greater than a dozen minutes, and Badosa transformed her fifth break probability after Gauff missed two forehands in a row.

Of Badosa’s 12 factors in that recreation, 11 got here by way of errors by Gauff, together with seven errant forehands.

“Today,” Gauff mentioned, “she did better in those key moments.”

When Badosa ended the quarterfinal with a forehand winner, she positioned her hand over her mouth, then knelt on the bottom and bowed her head. This was an enormous second for somebody who reached a career-best rating of No. 2 in 2022, however solely now believes she’s reached her full potential.

“Emotionally, I wanted it so much,” Badosa mentioned. “I’m never going to feel freedom until I win the tournament. I’m always like this. It’s my personality. It’s my character.”

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