{"id":100485,"date":"2025-07-28T22:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T22:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/100485\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T22:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T22:30:12","slug":"coco-gauff-says-theres-a-great-player-on-the-wta-tour-who-she-shouldve-asked-to-be-her-doubles-partner-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/100485\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff says there’s a ‘great’ player on the WTA Tour who she should’ve asked to be her doubles partner in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Coco Gauff is making her return to the matchcourt in both singles and doubles at the Canadian Open.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gauff suffered a shock first round defeat at Wimbledon<\/a> in what was her last tournament before heading to Montreal.<\/p>\n

Despite her recent setback, Gauff believes she could have an advantage at the Canadian Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, she has admitted that she probably should have asked a different player to be her doubles partner for the WTA<\/a> 1000 tournament.<\/p>\n

\"VictoriaPhoto by Minas Panagiotakis\/Getty ImagesCoco Gauff says she should have asked Victoria Mboko to play doubles with her at the Canadian Open<\/p>\n

Gauff<\/a> has entered to play the doubles tournament with Alexandra Eala, who had a breakout run at the Miami Open<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n

This is the second time that Gauff has paired with Eala<\/a>, but she has now claimed that she should probably have asked a different young star to play with her instead.<\/p>\n

\"AlexandraPhoto by Robert Prange\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Victoria Mboko has enjoyed a dramatic rise up the WTA rankings in 2025, and has already won her debut match in the main draw of the Canadian Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gauff has been very complimentary of Mboko<\/a> in the past, and suggested in her pre-tournament press conference that she maybe should have asked the Canadian to play with her in Montreal.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is a super great player and a very nice person,\u201d Gauff said about Mboko. \u201cI have talked to her a little bit since then.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was thinking that I should have asked her to play doubles here, but I wasn\u2019t thinking in the top of my head so hopefully one of these days I will get to play with her, but I am playing with another great young person in Alex Eala if I get in.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut Victoria is great. She has a great serve, great forehand and backhand and can move really well on the court. I am sure we are going to have many more battles in the future and I\u2019m sure she is going to have a lot of success on tour.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

What happened when Coco Gauff played Victoria Mboko?<\/p>\n

While Gauff and Mboko are yet to play doubles alongside one another, they have once played a match against each other.<\/p>\n

That match came at the Italian Open<\/a> earlier this year, with Gauff coming from a set down to beat Mboko.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

After the match, Gauff was very complimentary towards the Canadian teenager, \u201cIt was a tough match. She came out playing some great tennis. I knew she was going to do that from watching some of her previous matches.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOverall I was happy with how I was able to step up my game. I wasn\u2019t playing so well in the first set and on top of that she was playing great tennis but I was able to reset.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gauff and Mboko could go head-to-head again at the Canadian Open, but both players would have to reach the fourth round if they are to do so.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff is making her return to the matchcourt in both singles and doubles at the Canadian Open.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":100486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2210,62,1464,67,132,68,65515,2212],"class_list":{"0":"post-100485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-coco-gauff","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-victoria-mboko","15":"tag-wta"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114933230814726385","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}