American tennis player Coco Gauff can improve the world, 18-time Grand Slam champion Martina Navratilova has said, lauding the teenage tennis prodigy for her role in the Black Lives Matter protests against racial injustice.
Gauff, 16, released a video on social media protesting killings of African-Americans in the United States amid widespread outrage across the country following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man in police custody in Minneapolis."She is just so poised on and off the court, she was really brought up with great qualities and it shows how she plays and it shows how she's active now politically," Navratilova told BBC Radio.
The death of Floyd sparked worldwide protests against racism and calls for reforms of U.S. law enforcement. Last month, Gauff appeared at a protest in her hometown of Delray Beach, Florida. "Sports has always been at the forefront of social change and it can be that again, with Black Lives Matter and equality for all," the 63-year-old said.
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