“Going into Roland Garros, I feel like I’m a different player” – Coco Gauff

Coco Gauff was last in action at the Italian Open last week, where she lost in the semifinals to eventual champion Iga Swiatek.At her press conference afterwards, the American appeared optimistic despite the loss, saying that she felt like a completely different player to the one she was before she started playing in Rome.Gauff said that Swiatek would once again be the player to beat at Roland Garros and hopes to use the learnings from their Italian Open clash to perform even better against the World No. 1 if they meet at the French Open next.

“I think going into Roland Garros, like if you asked me pretournament and now, I feel like I’m a different player in terms of just how I’ve been playing. I think it really turned around in the Badosa match, then pushed through the Qinwen, and then today was a 4-3 loss. I feel like the scoreline doesn’t show how competitive it was. It was almost two hours at 6-4, 6-3,” Coco Gauff said.

“Going into it, I know [Iga Swiatek’s] the one to beat if I want to win Roland Garros. I’m going to take what I learned from today and try to apply that next time we play, which I hope is at Roland Garros,” she added.
Coco Gauff is a former finalist at the French Open, finishing as the runner-up to Swiatek in the 2022 edition.