The past few weeks have been difficult for Coco Gauff as the extra training she spent on court to fix her serve had been mentally and physically taxing, but she is determined to continue to learn on the job.<\/p>\n
Following her decision to part ways with Matt Daly after the Cincinnati Open in order to bring in biomechanical coach Gavin MacMillan<\/a>, Gauff was forced to put in the hard yards ahead of the US Open, as the main goal is to completely change her service motion.<\/p>\n But the two-week period between the WTA 1000 event and the US Open<\/a> was never going to be long enough for such a big change, and the two-time Grand Slam winner struggled during the season-ending Grand Slam.<\/p>\n After needing three sets to defeat Ajla Tomljanovic in the first round, she revealed that the training with MacMillan was often brutal as her shoulder would hurt after sessions.<\/p>\n There were also tears during her second-round win<\/a> over Donna Vekic and following her two-set fourth-round defeat to Naomi Osaka, she admitted that she broke down<\/a> following her exit in New York.<\/p>\n Some suggested the 21-year-old should take an extended break<\/a> \u2013 both to recharge and to continue working with MacMillan \u2013 but Gauff<\/a> has confirmed that she will head to Asia later in September for the China Open.<\/p>\n \u201cI have no choice but to do a training block between now and Beijing, just the next tournament I\u2019m signed up for,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd like, I\u2019ve said this every year after US Open, for me, it\u2019s just improvement mode and to get ready for Australia. I had good results last year after US Open, and I think that\u2019s just because I didn\u2019t, I don\u2019t want to say didn\u2019t care because those tournaments obviously deserve effort, but I don\u2019t know, it\u2019s just that your mindset is different once the Slams are over.\u201d<\/p>\n Former world No 1 brands key area of Coco Gauff\u2019s game \u2018catastrophic\u2019 \u2013 and it\u2019s not her serve<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Tim Henman has a message for Coco Gauff after crushing US Open defeat<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Gauff is the defending champion in Beijing and that 2024 title run came at the perfect time as she struggled during the North American hard-court swing, failing to defend her Cincinnati and US Open titles, before turning her season around with her second WTA 1000 title.<\/p>\n The American followed that up with the WTA Finals title in Saudi Arabia<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n The reigning French Open champion added: \u201cSo whatever happens for the rest of the year, I just want it to be an improvement. I don\u2019t care, results-wise. Last year, if he told me I would go win in Beijing and WTA Finals, I would have been like, whatever, as I didn\u2019t really care going into it.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m going to probably have that same mindset. And if I do well, I\u2019ll do well like I did last year. And if not, if not. But I think for me, main improvements I get are from how I do in the Slams.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Will Coco Gauff take a break after US Open exit to work on her serve?<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The past few weeks have been difficult for Coco Gauff as the extra training she spent on court to fix her serve had been mentally and physically taxing, but she is determined to continue to learn on the job. Following her decision to part ways with Matt Daly after the Cincinnati Open in order to […]<\/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-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","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=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Coco Gauff News<\/h2>\n