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American tennis stars Coco Gauff and Ben Shelton applauded Iowa Hawkeyes’s star basketball player Caitlin Clark. Clark has been making a lot of headlines with her recent record-breaking performances. She became the NCAA Division I’s all-time leading scorer in both men’s and women’s basketball. This achievement of Caitlin Clark received both Ben Shelton and Coco Gauff’s congratulations expressing how much these tennis stars admire the Haweyes’s basketball star.

However, Clark is not resting but breaking more existing records, which tells her fans about her brilliance. Given that both Coco Gauff and Ben Shelton admire her performance, Caitlin Clark is all set to make her basketball career a journey through the epic sports moments in the sport.

Coco Gauff and Ben Shelton join hands to congratulate Caitlin Clark for making another historic moment in basketball

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In her match against LSU Tigers, Iowa Hawkeye’s Caitlin Clark made another history by securing the most number of 3-pointers in her career in NCAA Women’s Tournament History. Clark donned a pretty impressive performance for that. It was shared on the Instagram platform by ESPN’s official account. Now post-victory, American WTA legend Coco Gauff shared ESPN’s post on her Instagram Story and wrote- “unreal game sheesshh @caitlinclark22.”

 A similar reaction was received from America’s rising star in tennis, Ben Shelton as well. In Shelton’s official Instagram story, fans spotted a clip of his living room and a television, where Iowa Hawkeyes’s match was going on with LSU Tigers. Shelton was impressed a lot by Clark’s performance and sharing the picture, he wrote- “Caitlyn playing like curry rn

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However, this is not the first time Shelton and Gauff expressed their liking towards Iowa Hawkeyes’s Cailin Clark and her brilliant basketball moves.

Caitlin Clark earned applause from Ben Shelton and Coco Gauff for becoming the NCAA’s all-time leading scorer in women’s basketball

In her game against Michigan Wolverines, Iowa Hawkeyes’s Caitlin Clark broke Washington’s Kelsey Plum’s record. Clark did this after snatching a 3-pointer in the first quarter of the match. Clark’s achievement was also acknowledged by America’s Coco Gauff and Ben Shelton. Sharing Clark’s achievement Gauff dropped a fire emoji on her Instagram story. However, Shelton was prominent in expressing his opinion. He wrote- “Crazy atmosphere. Big time @caitlinclark22,”

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Gauff and Shelton’s gesture for Caitlin Clark represented that both of these tennis players enjoy basketball and they admire Caitlin Clark’s performance. This is how sports bring people and personalities together.

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