WTA Berlin: Will Coco Gauff win the title this year?
Cori Gauff will also serve at the WTA Tour 500 Berlin in Berlin this year. And would like to go at least one step further than last year, when she failed in the semifinals against eventual winner Ons Jabeur .
by PM / tennisnet
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Apr 30, 2023, 06:49 pm
Promise kept! Coco Gauff was so enthusiastic about her visit to Berlin last year that she said goodbye with the words: "I'll be back." And that's how it is now. The sixth in the world rankings is starting her second attempt at winning the tournament at the bett1open 2023 , which takes place from June 17th to 25th and is endowed with 850,000 US dollars. There they compete on the grass in the Steffi Graf Stadium of the LTTC “Rot-Weiß” e. V. in Berlin's Grunewald the strongest players in the world. And the American Coco Gauff, who has not yet won a tournament on grass in her spectacular career so far, is attacking again.
Coco Gauff says: "I'm really looking forward to the bett1open in June in beautiful Berlin. Hopefully I'll see as many fans there again to create that special pre-Wimbledon atmosphere together again."
Gauff failed in 2022 at Ons Jabeur
In 2015, aged just 15 years and 106 days, she was the youngest player to qualify for Wimbledon in the Open Era. Since then, she has been considered a rising superstar. Despite her youth, the 19-year-old has already become an idol for her attacking manner as a player on the pitch and personality in conversation. People come to tournaments just to see them. Because they know it's worth it.
Her coach and mentor is Patrick Mouratoglou, who has made Serena Williams the benchmark in women's tennis worldwide. His verdict on Gauff: "If she looks at you and tells you that she will be number one – then you can only believe that."
Last year, Gauff only failed in the semi-finals of the bett1open because of the later winner Ons Jabeur - who, by the way, will also compete in Berlin again. The reigning world champion Caroline Garcia, Olympic champion Belinda Bencic, two-time Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova and local hero Sabine Lisicki have also already confirmed.