BIO
Coco Gauff is an American tennis player. The youngest ever world No. 1 in doubles. Cori Gauff started playing tennis at the age of seven. She spent her childhood in Atlanta, but she later moved her family to Delray Beach, Florida, so that she could expand her opportunities to improve her tennis skills.
Individual Life
Coco Gauff, whose real name is Cori Dionne Gauff, was born in Delray Beach, Florida, on March 13, 2004. She told Sports Illustrated Kids that her aunt suggested calling her Coco, a play on one of her father’s earlier nicknames, to avoid confusion with their similar names. Cameron and Cody, Coco’s younger brothers, are her siblings.
Athleticism runs in the family. Her dad was a Georgia State University Division I basketball player. Her mother, Candi, was a gymnast who also participated in Division I track and field at Florida State University. Because Coco’s parents were athletes, they wanted their firstborn to pursue a sport. So, she began playing tennis at the age of 6.
Coco spent her early years in Georgia. Her mother was a teacher, while her father was a pharmaceuticals executive. To support Gauff’s tennis training and career, her parents opted to leave their jobs and move back to Delray Beach. Candi began to homeschool her daughter, while Corey became her coach.
Net Worth
Celebrity Net Worth appraises Gauff’s total fortune at around $3.5 million as of February 2024, though other estimates are higher. In any case, Gauff’s earnings have steadily risen during her career.
She won $538,103 in prize money in 2019 and $509,862 in 2020. In 2021, her winnings exceeded $1 million. Gauff earned $3 million for her breakthrough U.S. Open victory in 2023 and, according to the WTA, has received more than $15.1 million in career prize money as of July 2024.
Off the court, Gauff has endorsement deals with companies that include New Balance, Barilla, Bose, UPS, and Baker Tilly. According to Sportico, Gauff became the highest-paid female athlete of 2023, earning an estimated $22.7 million, largely as a result of those partnerships.
Tennis Junior Champion
Gauff had traveled to France to work with Serena Williams’ coach Patrick Mouratoglou by the time she was 10 years old. She kept working out with Mouratoglou, but her father was her main coach. “Be a well-rounded athlete, learn other sports—that’s one thing we emphasized with Coco early on; she was in gymnastics, soccer, basketball, and she ran track,” Corey has stated about Gauff’s development. We wanted her to develop as a total athlete.”
Gauff won the United States Tennis Association Clay Court National 12-and-under title in 2014. She finished second in the United States in 2017. Open Girls Junior Championships. The next year she became the junior champion at the French Open.
2023 U.S. Open Victory
Even though Gauff began the year 2022 with a solid ranking in the top 10, she had never won a Grand Slam tournament. At the 2022 French Open, she finished as runner-up, which was her best result. However, she finally broke through with her first Grand Slam title at the 2023 U.S. Open.
After becoming the youngest woman to win the singles title at the Western & Southern Open just weeks earlier by defeating No. 1-ranked Iga Swiatek, the 19-year-old went into the competition with a lot of momentum. Once in New York, Gauff proceeded to win six matches, including three against players inside the top 20 and a semifinal that was interrupted for about 50 minutes by a climate protest, to clinch her spot in the final.
She claimed an overall victory with a three-set win over Belarusian player Aryna Sabalenka on September 9.She became the youngest American woman since Serena Williams in 1999 to win the tournament. Gauff claimed her second major title in June 2024, this time winning doubles at the French Open with partner Katerina Siniaková.
2020 and 2024 Olympics
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a one-year delay for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. In 2021, Gauff was selected for the U.S. Olympic team following her success at the French Open in June.Since 2000, the teenager would have been the youngest tennis Olympian.
Personal Life
In an April 2024 article, Gauff revealed to Time that she has been in a relationship for more than a year, despite the fact that she has preferred to keep personal information about her life private. Although she hasn’t publicly shared her boyfriend’s identity, Gauff has said that he’s from Atlanta and not a tennis player, telling Vogue he is applying to music school and is an aspiring actor. “To just have someone to talk to who is not involved in tennis at all gives me a fresh perspective,” she explained to Time. In 2024, Gauff has suggested that her boyfriend might attend some of her American tournaments.