‘Surviving Even When He’s Like a Million Match Points Down’ – Coco Gauff’s Surprise Andy Murray Pick Comes With Peculiar Reasoning on National Hiking Day

Yesterday the majority of the world celebrated National Hiking Day and on that occasion, some famous ATP and WTA stars dropped the names of their favorite companion to go hiking with. Bringing a surprise to the fans, these tennis players chose hiking partners from the tennis community itself and gave fans a roll of laughter with the reason for their choice!

From Aryna Sabalenka to Stefanos Tsitsipas, all gave fans quite a great time revealing the names of their favorite hiking partner. However, the one player who really stood out among them was Coco Gauff! Want to know who she wanted to go hiking with?

Coco Gauff choosing Andy Murray as her hiking partner might leave fans in surprise and laughter

While asked for her choice of partner for hiking to celebrate the occasion of National Hiking Day, Coco Gauff chose Andy Murray! Her reason was quite amazing too. Gauff mentioned- “It would have to be someone that can survive if something goes wrong. So for that reason, I’m going to choose Andy Murray. The guy survives through everything. He’s surviving even when he’s like a million match points down.”

However, this is not the first time fans spotted Andy Murray’s impact on Coco Gauff. Three years back Gauff wholeheartedly supported Andy Murray’s work on bringing more focus to the diversity in tennis. Gauff believed that Murray was a great ally for the diversity movement in tennis. Now with Gauff’s choice for her favorite hiking partner, it seems like this tennis star is smitten by Andy Murray’s great skills and idealistic approach towards tennis.

On National Hiking Day many famous tennis stars were questioned about who they wanna go hiking with. While Stefanos Tsitsipas, and Daniil Medvedev all came up with some funny answers, Coco Gauff seemed to take a direct focus on her choice with a straight answer.

Not just Coco Gauff but the interview brought some hilarious and great responses from other tennis players about their preferred partner for hiking. Want to know who chose whom?

Tennis stars amaze fans with their preferred hiking partner from the industry

Along with Coco Gauff, many other stars dropped the names of their preferred hiking partner. For example, Aryna Sabalenka chose Paula Badosa, because she thought it would be fun. Now looking at Paula and Aryna’s friendship on and off the court, fans knew Sabalenka’s preference from the beginning. Although she had concerns about whether they would be able to reach the top.

Well, friendship played a significant role for some players in choosing their partners! Player Maria Sakkari felt Ajla Tomljanovic was her choice as they are very good friends. Daniil Medvedev also selected his childhood friend and biggest tennis buddy Andrey Rublev as his hiking partner based on their strong bonding.

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Talking about Stefanos Tsitsipas, his choice was based on a different aspect, which was Dominic Thiem‘s knowledge of mountains! Now, joining someone with more knowledge of mountains seemed like a strategic choice. Tsitsipas surely knows his way out! Then there’s Jessica Pegula, who selected Shelby Rogers as Rogers’ Instagram is flooded with hiking photos. Pegula somehow joined Tsitsipas’ idea to choose someone with additional knowledge of mountains. After all, hiking in the mountains isn’t an easy job.

The names of the preferred hiking partners for these tennis stars surely surprised fans and revealed a lot more insiders about how these tars feel about their colleagues and rivals. What do you think?

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