New York – It is not easy for anyone, and it was not easy Coco goffHe is aware of the expectations of others. He also has his own expectations, of course.
On Thursday night, a exit will not be done in the second round of the US Open. And double-fault her way to lose can simply be the worst scenario. So when she missed twice in a row, she works to break and fall behind against the initial set. Donna Vecic At the Arthur Ash Stadium, the goff felt overwhelmed and could not hide it.
Tears came. They will not stop. He covered his face with a towel on the sideline. When she went back to court after a change, Goff kept dubbing her eyes in the middle of points, tried to focus on, trying to find a way to win. He then did so, straightening his serving issues in the second set and finishing Vikic 7-6 (5), 6-2, Gauf cried something else.
“I just show people what it is to be a human being, and I have bad days, but I think it’s more how you get up after those bad moments and show you after that,” Gauf said, “Gauf said, which is number 3 in flushing meadows, where he won the first of his two Grand Slam titles in 2023. ,
His serving crises are resumed from time to time, with 19 double-faults contributing to a loss, which ended the defense of his title in New York a year ago. She leads the tour with over 300 double-faults this season-23 not long ago in a match-and biomacionics expert Gavin McMillan was hired, credited with reconstruction number 1-rank Aryana SabalankaServes shortly before this US opens.
The way McMillan served the goff hits, and she has been doing so many smacks in practice in the last one week that her shoulder is hurting.
“The biggest challenge is just changing the speed and everything is changing for me before such a big tournament,” Goff said. “It is generally one of the most nervous tournaments for me, and on top of all this, it is a lot.”
In the first round, he needed three sets to get the past Ajla tomaljanovicIn part due to double faults.
But like that match, the defense and superiority of the goff on the baseline carried forward his previous week.
What was him left emotionally as Thursday?
“It was just veins and just pressure, honestly, and I am someone who can usually thrive on him. I have a lot on this tournament, more than normal, which I expected to expect me to come,” Gauf explained. “Originally, what you saw was what it was, and I was able to reset through it. But it was a challenging moment for me. It is difficult for a few weeks in court and outside, but I am happy to get it today.”
Vecic, who defeated Goff at the Paris Olympics last year, took a medical timeout for the silver medal, saw his right shoulder late in the first set and was doing a lot of serving his own. He failed a double fault 10 times.
In the first set, a 21-year-old Florida had seven double-faults and lost four of their six service games, including 5–4 trails-when tears began-and then 6–5. But she breaks each of those times back and then was superior to the tiebreaker.
When Vecic sent a forehand to finish the set for a long time, Goff’s mother woke up from her seat, a line behind McMillan, and shouted, “Come on! Let’s go!”
Goff turned to the locker room to print some water on his face and focus.
It did amazing work.
She used to gather herself, and the second set went too smoothly: just a double-fault, zero service brake, in front of a crowd that included star gymnast Simone Bile.
Till the end, Gauf was in a better mood, when a closed left hand was shouting when winning the match.
He saw that Biles was on hand.
“She helped me get it out. I was just thinking: if she could go on a 6 -inch beam and she could, with all the pressures of the world, I could hit the ball. … It brought me a little calm, just knowing her story, with knowing her story, she had all the things that she had passed mentally,” Goff said. “He is an inspiration, of course.”
Goff’s next opponent will be Magdelena FractWho rally to knock out American Peon sterns 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-2 to proceed in the third round.
American Amanda anisimovaNumber 8 seeds, 7-6 (2), 6-2 proceeded with winning Maya joint,
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
