You know that feeling when you’re watching your favorite team blow a lead, and your stomach starts doing gymnastics routines? That is exactly what Coco Gauff fans experienced Thursday night at Arthur Ashe Stadium. The 21-year-old American was wiping away tears between points, her serve looking shakier than a leaf in a hurricane, yet somehow she managed to gut out a 7-6 (5), 6-2 victory over Croatia’s Donna Vekic.

When Champions Show Their Human Side

There’s something both heartbreaking and inspiring about watching Gauff battle through visible emotion on tennis’s biggest stage. The two-time Grand Slam champion wasn’t just fighting Vekic . She was wrestling with her own demons, those pesky serving yips that have been haunting her game like a bad horror movie sequel.

“Honestly, today was

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