Coco Gauff has confessed that she \u2018doesn\u2019t care\u2019 about being American No 1, and shared how she wishes to end her career.<\/p>\n
The American gave an exclusive interview to Roland Garros<\/a>, with just under three months until the tournament.<\/p>\n \u201cI think just accepting the highs and lows,\u201d stated Gauff<\/a>, when asked what she has learnt the most over the last year.<\/p>\n \u201cI think sometimes in sports you want to just stay on the high and kind of ride that wave, but especially with this sport, a season as long as tennis, it\u2019s impossible to always be on that high wave, and there\u2019s going to be some low moments, I think.<\/p>\n \u201cJust trying to stick through those tough moments and get better through them. Not feeling like the rest of the season is going to go that way. I feel like I\u2019m able to turn it around. It\u2019s happened before. I think it just takes one match or two matches to kind of get that confidence back.\u201d<\/p>\n The American, who has been the top-ranked player in her country for a substantial period, is already a Grand Slam Champion, having also won multiple other big titles. However, Gauff has never reached the world No 1 status.<\/p>\n \u201cHonestly, it never meant anything to me,\u201d Gauff said when asked about being the American number one.<\/p>\n \u201cI just feel like all the people say it online. And for me, it really means absolutely nothing. I don\u2019t like to look at it. I don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n \u201cThe reason it means nothing is because of the goal, obviously, is to be number one, period.<\/p>\n \u201cBut obviously, I am lucky to be surrounded by such great competition for my country. And all of us are friendly with each other and we root for each other. And I was just happy to see, Madison win and then seeing Amanda win \u2013 two people who I think rightfully and strongly deserve those titles.\u201d<\/p>\n Emma Raducanu leaves Instagram weeks after stalking ordeal<\/a><\/p>\n ITIA CEO insists \u2018rules were respected\u2019 in handling of Jannik Sinner, Iga Swiatek doping cases<\/a><\/p>\n Despite only being 21-years-old, Gauff also shared how she wishes to end her career, stating: \u201cI guess the most important thing is just to not be physically burnt out, just because at the end of the day, when it\u2019s time to retire, I want to make sure it\u2019s on my terms and not because of an injury or anything like that.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I think it\u2019s just more so protecting my love for the sport and hopefully that it treats me with that love, too.\u201d<\/p>\n It is that love for the sport that Gauff attempted to reiterate during Indian Wells, as she stated during a press conference: \u201cAs I get older, honestly, I feel like I love the sport more than when I was 17, 18, just because I felt more pressure then because of how I just came and started.\u201d<\/p>\n Coco Gauff will next play at the Miami Open, taking place from March 18 \u2013 March 30.<\/p>\n The post Coco Gauff reveals how she wishes to retire, and opens up on statistic which means \u2018nothing\u2019 to her<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Coco Gauff has confessed that she \u2018doesn\u2019t care\u2019 about being American No 1, and shared how she wishes to end her career. The American gave an exclusive interview to Roland Garros, with just under three months until the tournament. \u201cI think just accepting the highs and lows,\u201d stated Gauff, when asked what she has learnt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Latest WTA News<\/h3>\n