Who is the team behind U.S. tennis star Coco Gauff? From coach Brad Gilbert to her physio and agent,Coco gauff coach in pain as he develop skin cancer
Gauff’s parents, Corey and Candi, have long been at their daughter’s side. But who else makes up team Coco as the American aims for more majors titles – and Olympic medals? Find out below. If you try to locate Coco Gauff’s father, Corey, watching his daughter playing from in the crowd during one of her matches, it could take you all match long to successfully locate him.
“My dad is here. I don’t know where. But he’s here somewhere,” Gauff revealed during last month’s Australian Open, where she made the semi-finals. “Sometimes my dad says some words that I can’t say right here… [Laughs.] [So] we agreed he can go say them somewhere else.If you guys see him, tell him I said, ‘Hello,’” she told post-match interviewer Jelena Dokic, the crowd joining Gauff in laughter.
It’s as funny as it is true: Corey, a former collegiate basketballer, can be credited as Coco’s first and longest-standing coach. With his wife Candi, who ran track at Florida State, Coco was introduced to tennis at age seven and began taking it more seriously after the family moved back home from Georgia to Delray Beach.
In Delray Beach, it was Gerard Loglo who was her first serious coach. (She had also been coached by Jewel Peterson when she first began the sport in the Atlanta area.)Some 12 years later, the 2023 US Open champion and seven-time singles titlist on the WTA Tour, has only had a few guides aside from her parents.
So who is coaching her now? And what’s their role within her coaching team? We explore.
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