Coco Gauff has been told that she needs to win two Grand Slams per year for a decade if she is to stand any chance of reaching 20 majors with Rennae Stubbs offering a mixed assessment of the American\u2019s 2025 season.<\/p>\n
Aged just 20, Gauff<\/a> doubled her Grand Slam tally this year as she won the French Open<\/a> to go with the US Open trophy she lifted in 2023 while she also won one WTA 1000 title and finished runner-up at two more 1000 events.<\/p>\n The American finished the campaign at No 3 in the WTA Rankings with world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka and No 2 Iga Swiatek well ahead on the list.<\/p>\n Gauff will no doubt be happy with what she achieved this year, but four-time women\u2019s doubles Grand Slam winner Stubbs says the 20-year-old will be disappointed in the bigger scheme of things.<\/p>\n Speaking on the Rennae Stubbs podcast, she said: \u201cShe\u2019ll be super disappointed in a lot of ways, but then the other side of me is like, no\u2026 the reason that flipped in my mind is when you said it\u2019s because Coco said she wants to win the most Grand Slams. She\u2019s put it out there that she wants to be one of the greatest of all time. That\u2019s her words, not mine.<\/p>\n \u201cShe has consistently sort of put it out there and not been afraid to say that she wants to be as great as Venus [Williams] or Serena [Williams]. And I\u2019m like, okay, well, they won a lot of major titles when they were 18, 19, 20.<\/p>\n \u201cThey were racking at that point at your age, and you\u2019ve got two unbelievable, at your age to do what you\u2019ve done. So if you want to get to 20, you gotta win two for 10 years, or you\u2019re gonna win a lot in a short period of time, depending on how long you want to play for.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I think in some respects that\u2019s disappointing because she wants to rack them up.\u201d<\/p>\n Coco Gauff \u2018knocking on that No 1 door\u2019 prediction made by ex-Serena Williams coach<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Coco Gauff\u2019s stunning net worth estimated as she remains highest-earning female athlete<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n For the record, 23-time Grand Slam winner Serena won the 1999 US Open as an 18-year-old and then had to wait nearly three years to double her tally in 2002, but that year was fruitful as she won the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open before turning 20.<\/p>\n Venus, meanwhile, won her first two titles in the year she turned 20 as she lifted the Wimbledon and US Open crowns and the following year she won those events again.<\/p>\n Although Gauff is determined to become one of the best, she has also made it clear that winning is not the be-all and end-all.<\/p>\n Stubbs is impressed by that attitude, but also feels there were a lot of concerning moments for the American<\/a> during 2025.<\/p>\n \u201cThe other part of me is like, Coco is such a balanced human being that she has also talked about \u2018I know that winning doesn\u2019t define me as a person\u2019 and she talked about that a lot this year.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know whether she\u2019s going to therapy or what\u2019s happening, but she has got this different perspective on winning and losing as well, where she\u2019s very adamant that it doesn\u2019t change her as a person.<\/p>\n \u201cSo in that respect, she would look at this year as a success right and be like, I\u2019m doing great, I\u2019m making a lot of money, I won another major title.<\/p>\n \u201cBut also at the same time, we saw the breakdowns, the crying on the court again, the double-faulting, the forehand woes as well. Coco this year had such a Coco year where you\u2019re like, \u2018oh, she\u2019s unbelievable,\u2019 and then you\u2019re like \u2018oh, what is going on?\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know how she would look at this year, I think this again, if she looks at it like Sabalanka, which was a learning year of what can I get better at in 2026, then sure this was a great year for her to look at winning a major title and then looking at it and going \u2018okay, I know how much better I can get.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cThere are a lot of parts of her game that she can get better at.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Should Coco Gauff be disappointed with her 2025 season? Former world No 1 shares opinion<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Coco Gauff has been told that she needs to win two Grand Slams per year for a decade if she is to stand any chance of reaching 20 majors with Rennae Stubbs offering a mixed assessment of the American\u2019s 2025 season. 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