{"id":288257,"date":"2023-09-10T17:34:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T17:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=288257"},"modified":"2023-09-10T17:34:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T17:34:34","slug":"brad-gilbert-turned-gauff-from-wimbledon-first-round-loser-to-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/tennis\/brad-gilbert-turned-gauff-from-wimbledon-first-round-loser-to-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Gilbert turned Gauff from Wimbledon first round loser to champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Brad Gilbert helped turn Coco Gauff from Wimbledon first round loser into a hugely popular US Open champion&#8230; and it took just six weeks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Coco Gauff won the US Open as she upset second-seeded Aryna Sabalenka\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Gauff, 19, clinched a 2-6 6-3 6-2 win on a delirious Arthur Ashe Stadium<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The triumph came six weeks after the surprise coaching hire of Brad Gilbert<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Six weeks after becoming a surprise coaching hire, Brad Gilbert helped turn Coco Gauff from Wimbledon first round loser into a hugely popular US Open champion.<\/p>\n<p>There are faint echoes of what happened with another teenage winner of recent vintage, Emma Raducanu, who teamed up with Andrew Richardson in the summer of 2021. By mid-September she had enjoyed an extraordinary triumph at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>Except this time the greater experience already acquired by Gauff means that she is unlikely to repeat the mistake of immediately getting rid of her coach.<\/p>\n<p>American legend Chris Evert was among those purring over the 19 year-old Floridian&#8217;s New York win, and she believes that it will be very much in Gauff&#8217;s favour that she has been a more gradual developer, having already been playing at the highest level since the age of fifteen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I am glad Coco did not win as a younger teenager because it can be a bad thing for players. There are examples of that, look at Emma Raducanu,&#8217; Evert told ESPN. &#8216; It puts a lot of pressure on the player because they are not emotionally developed yet and they cannot handle it. Coco is now ready to win.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert &#8211; the 62 year-old veteran brought in at the start of August to coach alongside Spaniard Pere Riba &#8211; is known as a master tactician, but has previously worked mainly in the men&#8217;s game, alongside a media career.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/10\/17\/75269111-12501799-image-m-47_1694362767609.jpg\" height=\"407\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Brad Gilbert helped turn Coco Gauff from Wimbledon loser into US Open champion<\/p>\n<p>He wrote a seminal manual on tennis strategy entitled Winning Ugly, and his latest client initially needed to do that against Aryna Sabalenka as she battled her way through the first two error-strewn sets in Saturday&#8217;s final, before tightening up her whole game in the decider.<\/p>\n<p>As Evert observed: &#8216;She didn&#8217;t have her A-plus game and she won her match. It is her first Major and in her own country which makes it even more special.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She is an extraordinary tennis player and an even more extraordinary human being. We have seen that at a young age. She has spoken out on important issues, she has a social conscience. I think her parents have done a great job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They have given her space at 19 years old to get Brad Gilbert and make her own decision. That was not easy for Candi and Corey.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/10\/17\/75268831-0-image-a-38_1694361863892.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Gauff, 19, clinched a 2-6 6-3 6-2 win on a delirious Arthur Ashe Stadium on Saturday<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/article-12501799\/Brad-Gilbert-helped-turn-Coco-Gauff-Wimbledon-round-loser-hugely-popular-Open-champion-took-just-six-weeks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Brad Gilbert helped turn Coco Gauff from Wimbledon first round loser into a hugely popular US Open champion&#8230; and it took just six weeks Coco <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/tennis\/brad-gilbert-turned-gauff-from-wimbledon-first-round-loser-to-champion\/\" title=\"Brad Gilbert turned Gauff from Wimbledon first round loser to champion\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Brad Gilbert turned Gauff from Wimbledon first round loser to champion - Sportstoft<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/tennis\/brad-gilbert-turned-gauff-from-wimbledon-first-round-loser-to-champion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brad Gilbert turned Gauff from Wimbledon first round loser to champion - Sportstoft\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Brad Gilbert helped turn Coco Gauff from Wimbledon first round loser into a hugely popular US Open champion&#8230; 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