After having a wonderful campaign on the clay courts, which ended with a title triumph at Roland Garros, Coco Gauff failed to make an impact on grass. She was ousted by Xinyu Wang in the R16 of the Grass Court Championships in Berlin. That was only the prelude to a bigger heartbreak as she suffered another straight-set defeat to the current world number 31, Dayana Yastremska. This time at Wimbledon. The Ukrainian took just 78 minutes to topple the world No. 2 7-6(3),6-1. Gauff, of course, was far from impressed with herself. “ I don’t really like losing – I just feel a little bit disappointed in how I showed up today, ” she confessed.

Even Montreal saw her eliminated in the R16, courtesy of 18-year-old Canadian phenom and eventual champion, Victoria Mboko. In Cincinnati, she started her

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