Emma Navarro eliminates Coco Gauff at Wimbledon to become her her first Grand Slam quarterfinal

The Charleston’s Emma Navarro advances to first Grand Slam quarterfinals at Wimbledon.

By Associated Press

Jul 07, 2024 08:25 PM

London (AP) -The game was not going according to plan in the match of Coco Gauff against Emma Navarro at Centre Court and she was not doing so well in fact and she would look into her guests box to seek assistance with her coaching. One coach, Brad Gilbert, would stand up and gesture and they would chat between themselves but a solution didn’t come through.

Gauff hasn’t been able to make it past the fourth and final round at Wimbledon Gauff was eliminated in the same round on Sunday, being eliminated by Navarro who won the 7-6, 6-4 in an all-American contest.

“We had the game plan in place but I was feeling that it was not functioning. I’m not always asking for suggestions from the box, but today was one the times when I was feeling like I didn’t have any solutions,” Gauff, the present U.S. Open champion and placed at No. two at All England Club. “Mentally there was a lot of things going on and I was feeling that I needed more direction. “

Hers was only one of a long string of withdrawals by top female athletes of this year’s Wimbledon competition this year. There was no. 1 Iga Swiatek lost on Saturday as was no. 3 Aryna Sabalenka had to pull out due to an injury to her shoulder prior to her match and also No. 6 Marketa Vondrousova fell to Marketa Vondrousova in the first round.

Only 2 of 10 women who have been ranked in the top 10. They are still in the rankings, and they’re the 2022 champions Elena Rybakina, ranked number. 4. Rybakina is also most recent French Open runner-up Jasmine Paolini who is ranked No. 7. She will play Navarro in the next round. Rybakina is playing her fourth round match on Monday. Paolini made it to the fourth round on Sunday following Madison Keys stopped playing because she was injured.

Navarro showed precisely the type of tennis she’s capable of playing in round two match, in which she beat the four-time major champion Naomi Osaka.

“I don’t have a ton of words,” said the 19th-ranked Navarro 23-year-old, who was born in the coastal region in South Carolina and won an NCAA championship in Virginia.

“I played very aggressively. Coco is clearly an incredible player. I have lots of admiration for her, and what she’s accomplished at such young age is truly remarkable. I knew that she wasn’t going to be easy for me tonight.” said Navarro who reached the quarterfinals of the Grand Slam tournament for the first time. “But I was determined to be aggressive and challenge her play and I believe I did this. “

Alongside her prize in New York last September, Gauff 20, a 20 year young woman from Florida finished third on the podium at the French Open and reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open.

The first breakthrough came during the All England Club at age 15, at the time Gauff was the youngest athlete to make it through the tournament. She defeated Venus Williams in the first round to progress to the fourth round. Gauff hasn’t been able to replicate the results she got at that time.

She also lost in the fourth round of her subsequent appearance, which was in 2021. She was then eliminated in the third round in 2022. She also lost in the very first round one year prior to that.

In the final round on Sunday, Gauff seemed to be continuously making mistakes and ended up with more than twice the amount of errors that were not forced 25 as she won 12 12, 12. Her most important issue was her shot players know Gauff’s weak point which is the forehand.

Navarro kept on to hit on the other side, and it worked.

Gauff made 16 forehand errors that were not forced and forced mistakes, which contributed to 32 of the total 61 points earned from Navarro.

“I have the ability to raise my level when players play well, and I feel I didn’t do that today,” Gauff declared.

She revealed that when she’s sought mid-game assistance from her coaches “They usually gave me something,” however, she said: “Today, I don’t believe we were on the same page. “

“It’s no one’s fault but me,” Gauff claimed. “I’m the one in the game. “

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