"Gauff is a very good athlete, but there are things she should be able to correct immediately"

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Coco Gauff is always in a learning process. Her early breakthrough at that Wimbledon in 2019, at just 16 years old, made all eyes focus on her. The Atlanta native is living up to the expectations placed on her: she's the champion of the US Open in 2023 and Roland Garros in 2025. Moreover, she has reached the world number two ranking.

However, there are certain aspects of her game that she must improve if she wants to challenge the duo that has dominated the WTA in recent years: Iga Swiatek and Aryna Sabalenka. The American knows what it takes to beat them both in important tournaments but she needs some refinements in her tennis to regularly compete against them and aim for titles in all the tournaments she participates in.

The biggest weakness in her game is her serve. In fact, she closed 2025 as the player with the most double faults on the WTA circuit with a total of 431, and at the WTA Montreal, she made 23 double faults in a single match. Therefore, she tried to address the issue by hiring Gavin MacMillan, a biomechanics expert who had previously helped Aryna Sabalenka with her service problems.

The number of double faults has significantly decreased, and while she didn't succeed at the US Open, she clinched the title in Wuhan during the Asian tour. Nevertheless, Alexandra Stevenson, a former WTA player who reached the Wimbledon semifinals in 1999 and is now a sports commentator, believes that the world number three has many things to work on. She stated this in an interview with Inside-In Tennis Podcast.

These are the issues that Coco Gauff must correct in her tennis

"She's a very good athlete, but there are technical issues with her movement and I hope MacMillan is addressing them. I haven't watched her train, but there are technical aspects that should be able to be corrected immediately. In training, this doesn't mean she's under pressure: the serve and the forehand go hand in hand, so the forehand was addressed first, but I think it should have been the serve that was corrected first."

"I think they should have targeted the serve first and then looked at fixing the forehand because when you don't have a serve and you lose it, you lose your forehand; that happens in all areas of tennis. They did it the other way around, but they are working on it, and she keeps outperforming the girls, because in the women's circuit now the serve is a problem."

Stevenson points out a widespread issue with serving in the WTA

"The serve of all players could improve on the women's side, that's why Elena Rybakina came out of nowhere and won the WTA Finals against the top eight, right? Basically because of her serve. It's a fundamental thing I've discovered in training: the serve is neglected on the women's side, and that really annoys me because it should be the primary focus of improvement," says Alexandra Stevenson, who believes that Coco Gauff has a lot to work on.

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