A few hours after winning her first WTA title in Linz and going viral for the umpteenth time, Coco Gauff celebrated her victory the way that most people born in 2004 probably would: on her phone. She fired up her Instagram and turned on a celebratory livestream, bantering with her fans and answering their questions. Before she departed she had one thing to get off her chest: “To everyone who said I couldn’t do it and that I was a one-timer, this was a one-time thing. Joke’s on you!”
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Written by Tumaini Carayol
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/oct/16/coco-gauff-wimbledon-generation-tennis under the title “Coco Gauff: ‘My generation has just decided it is time to speak up’”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
