French Open 2024: Coach Brad Gilbert Stresses on Coco Gauff’s Overlooked Feat in Strange Parallels Drawn to Mirra Andreeva

The French Open is in full swing and coming into the latter stages of the tournament, the action is just double and the madness is over the roof. With only the best players in the event remaining, the hunt for the prestigious title is on. One of the stars, eager to lay her hands on the title will be Coco Gauff. While Americans are not considered very good at clay, Gauff is proving all of them wrong.

Having made her way into the tournament’s semi-finals in the singles category, she is also sending shockwaves into the doubles. Partnering with Katerina Siniakova, she has made her way into the quarter-finals in doubles. And this is something that her coach, Brad Gilbert certainly could not get enough of. Taking to X (formerly Twitter), he oozed confidence into how her student Coco Gauff and a few players are the only names in every event format.

Mentioning the young Russian prodigy Mirra Andreeva and the Italian sensation Jasmine Paolini, Gilbert suggested that these are the only three players who are there in both the singles and doubles categories in Roland Garros.“Under the radar in the Women’s @rolandgarros there are 3 players still alive in singles and doubles @CocoGauff Paolini and Andreeva,” said Brad Gilbert in his tweet.

Thus, Brad Gilbert, in his recent tweet oozed confidence after Coco Gauff, the only American hope remaining in women’s singles made it through to the semis and also the quarter-finals. She defeated Ons Jabeur to book her place in the semi-finals of the tournament. While she secured her win, there were multiple records that she bagged in her pocket as her win meant special for her.

Coco Gauff and the record galore that she broke after her win against Ons Jabeur at the French Open

After winning her match against Ons Jabeur, Coco Gauff shattered many records. She became only the third American woman in the history of the sport to have reached multiple Roland Garros semi-finals before the age of 21. Accompanying her on the list are Chris Evert and Andrea Jaeger. Apart from this, she even joined the likes of Russian tennis legend Maria Sharapova as well. She became the youngest tennis woman to reach the Grand Slam semi-final 3 consecutive times.

With a few other records to her name, Coco Gauff is just proving herself impossible to deal with in the ongoing French Open. With the way she has been going, will she be able to clinch the title in Paris? What are your thoughts on this? Please let us know in the comments below!