Coco Gauff has been a great talent all his life and has been one of the foremost in the world of his age. Around 2017-2018 it became too much for her.
- I struggled to find out if this was really what I wanted. I've always had the results, so it wasn't, but I just noticed that I didn't enjoy what I love, she writes in Behind The Raquet.
She writes about tough performance requirements that she put on herself.
- When you have such a dark way of thinking, you don't see things from the bright times so often. That's the toughest thing.
Gauff even considered taking a year off from tennis.
- Not doing it was certainly the right decision, but it was close that it would not be so. I was confused. There were many while sitting weeping and thinking. I came out of it stronger than ever.
Gauff was the youngest in the Open Era to qualify for the main tournament in Wimbledon and eventually went out with the finalist Simona Halep in the fourth round.