LONDON—Teenager Coco Gauff has captivated Wimbledon with her extraordinary talent and youthful exuberance but, as her beaten opponent said on Tuesday, she is "probably older in her head than the numbers show".
Afterwards a clearly delighted Gauff, who beat five-times champion Venus Williams in the first round before taking the scalps of former semi-finalist Magdalena Rybarikova and Hercog, switched between reflective adult and excited teenager."I remember before I played Venus, as you know, when you walk to leave the practice courts, there are people waiting. One little kid asked me for a picture. Then after the next day, after I played Venus, everybody was screaming my name.
"Obviously this moment is an incredible moment. I'm still excited I get to keep living it," she said, adding that defeats she had suffered in the past had helped her to achieve success this week.Gauff recovered from two match points against her on Tuesday to overcome Hercog in a match that lasted two hours 46 minutes and took her into Wimbledon's second week.
"Please tell me she's a meme. I'm so excited to go on Instagram," she laughed. "I'm going to retweet it and everything."
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