In her first Grand Slam match since turning into a Grand Slam champion, Coco Gauff superior to the second spherical of the Australian Open in dominant style – 6-Three, 6-Zero over Slovakia’s Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 68.
Gauff received 54 of the 75 factors. Schmiedlova was damaged in all seven service video games and by no means had a service level.
Serial head no. four Gauff, who received September’s US Open on the age of 19, subsequent performs compatriot Caroline Dolehide, who’s ranked 42.
Gauff began the 12 months by profitable a refinement occasion in New Zealand final week. She will turn into the youngest participant to win a number of Slams since Maria Sharapova in 2006 and the youngest American to take action since Tracy Austin in 1981.
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Final week, Gauff mentioned he felt no distinction coming right into a Slam and having already received one.
“It is prior to now,” she mentioned of the US Open triumph. “The one factor I am going to attempt to bear in mind from that Slam is how we received. It was not my greatest tennis. It was extra psychological hearth. We had some dangerous matches.”
Because the US Open, Gauff has been engaged on shortening his serve with Andy Roddick, the most effective servers in historical past. Brad Gilbert, one among Gauff’s coaches, additionally coached Roddick to a US Open title in 2003.
Gauff was additionally open about lofty ambitions, together with being one of many busiest athletes on the Paris Olympics. As for the Slam titles?
“Double figures can be fairly cool,” she mentioned. “I do not know if it would occur, however I feel it is a lofty aim. I feel setting my targets excessive pushes me past what I feel I can do.”
Additionally on Monday, 93rd-ranked Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine eradicated Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova 6-1, 6-2.
Czech Vondrousova withdrew from a coaching occasion final week with a proper hip harm. Yastremska has misplaced her earlier seven first-round matches at Slams.
The Australian Open continues in a single day, headlined by Naomi Osaka’s first Slam match since delivery in opposition to No. 16 Caroline Garcia of France.
Tuesday’s lineup contains first-round video games for Iga Swiatek and Carlos Alcaraz.