Coco Gauff is just 15, but she’s already one of the best players in world tennis. This week she was playing at the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand, and during her match against Laura Siegemund they mic’d up both her and her father, Corey Gauff, who also serves as her coach.
The talk, which took place after the first set, is a great example of her dad giving her a ton of positive reinforcement, which at one point embarrasses Gauff to the point that she looks up at the ball person like, Ugh, dads, right?
That was good, but the best part was when her father said that Gauff hadn’t given up three points to her opponent’s “damn serve” which led to Gauff gently chastising her father, reminding him that he was mic’d up and he wasn’t allowed to curse.
Her dad, who hadn’t realized he had cursed, pleaded his innocence, but Gauff wasn’t having it.
“I cursed?” he said.
She told him he had, and then he bashfully apologized into the mic.
It was very cute:
Gauff would go on to lose the match to Siegemund. I hope the cursing wasn’t responsible.
