2025 United Cup teammates Coco Gauff and Danielle Collins have taken their friendship to a new level. In a delightful exchange of skills, Gauff taught her senior teammate a few tricks about videography. In the meantime, the 2024 Miami Open winner shared her signature dance moves with the reigning 2024 WTA Finals champion. Although Collins proved to be a quick learner under Gauff’s guidance, the same couldn’t be said for the former US Open winner. As the story unfolds, their fun interaction shows why Danielle Collins remains the undisputed OG queen of Team USA.

Collins announced retirement from professional tennis after the last season. However, in an unexpected turn of events, she remained on the scene, enduring medical complications like rheumatoid arthritis and endometriosis. Despite confessing about her hard time managing her personal life with professional tours, Collins participated in the 2025 United Cup and appeared as one of the most fun-loving and entertaining candidates for Team USA.

This 2024 Miami Open winner made a candid revelation about partying with her girls after the tournament. She said, “There would be a lot of twerking, obviously, cuz that’s like my signature move and we’d be in Las Vegas.” However, seems like Collins couldn’t reserve her exclusive dancing move for later and brought it into the tournament scene, fueling her team’s spirit.

The WTA’s official IG profile shared a video in which, at the beginning, Collins showed her infamous twerking moves while Coco Gauff captured the moment. “Ok Danielle we all know what you want,” said Gauff, revealing Danimal’s eccentric energy to keep the Team USA on fire. After that, the video showed Gauff securing her incredible entry to the finals after overpowering Karolina Muchova in straight sets without dropping a single one.

Post-victory, Gauff danced her way to her team members and celebrated the moment with Team USA. Collins asked her to show her twerking moves as a part of her celebration of her win. “You wanna get me twerking?” asked Collins. In response, Gauff tried to imitate Collins’ moves, but could only shake her waist in utter failure. Nevertheless, the moment brought joy and happiness as Team USA marched towards finals with Gauff’s brilliance.

Now, Gauff spoke about Collins’ twerking skills in an interview after overpowering Karolina Muchova. Reflecting on her team’s dynamics and Collins’ signature dance moves, Gauff expressed an amazing bond.

Coco Gauff revealed asking Danielle Collins “not to” twerk

The former US Open champion was asked how her senior teammate kept the team energetic and fun and whether she taught the 2024 Charleston Open winner to shoot videos. In her response, Gauff revealed a great friendship with Collins.

“Danielle, she is pretty young, and I am surprised that she hasn’t done some twerking yet today. I had to tell her not to do that. But, no, my whole team, we have great team vibes, escape rooms. We haven’t done a team Tiktok yet. So maybe today or tomorrow we’ll do it,” said Gauff.

WTA’s official IG profile later shared the interview clip with a caption, “We love when @danimalcollins has the camera!” Now, the post soon attracted Collins’ attention, and she hilariously called herself “Coco’s backup dancer.” 

All in all, Danielle Collins and Coco Gauff’s moments from the 2025 United Cup scream pure happiness and fun. Although Team USA is leaving no stone unturned to reach the finals, they are also having their moment of team bonding that highlights these tournaments are much more than competition; it is an opportunity to make friends with colleagues and enjoy the thrill of the sport.