{"id":185137,"date":"2025-08-29T17:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T17:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/185137\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T17:31:13","slug":"espn-reporter-accidentally-called-coco-gauff-simone-in-awkward-on-air-slip-up-at-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/185137\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN reporter accidentally called Coco Gauff &#8216;Simone&#8217;\u00a0in\u00a0awkward on-air slip-up at US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ESPN reporter accidentally called tennis pro Coco Gauff by the name \u201cSimone\u201d in an awkward on-air slip-up as gymnastics legend Simone Biles sat<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/simone-biles\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0<\/a>nearby at the US Open \u2014 causing social media to pounce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimone, this match had it all\u2026\u201d ESPN reporter Katie George told the 21-year-old French Open champ during an interview after she beat Croatia\u2019s Donna Vekic Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The sports commentator had just interviewed Biles, who was seated a few rows away at the tournament, when she made the sports world error \u2014 sparking backlash online.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.79980469;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36968978\" width=\"472\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/110290739.jpg\" alt=\"Woman holding a microphone.\" class=\"wp-image-36968978\"  \/>ESPN reporter Katie George accidentally called tennis pro Coco Gauff by the name \u201cSimone\u201d in an awkward on-air slip-up as gymnastics legend Simone Biles sat<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/simone-biles\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">\u00a0<\/a>nearby at the US Open \u2014 causing an uproar on social media.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36968903\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/usas-coco-gauff-becomes-emotional-110267485.jpg\" alt=\"Coco Gauff crying during a US Open post-match interview.\" class=\"wp-image-36968903\"  \/>\u201cSimone, this match had it all\u2026\u201d ESPN reporter Katie George told the 21-year-old French Open champ during an interview after she beat Croatia\u2019s Donna Vekic Thursday. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Observers on X called the\u00a0mistake\u00a0\u201ccringy\u201d and \u201chilariously awkward\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid that interviewer lady just call Coco Gauff \u201cSimone\u201d or was I hearing things???\u201d one commenter wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimone\u2019s got tennis skills?? Wait\u2026\u201d another quipped.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Gauff moved past the mistake and instead thanked Biles, who is a close friend,\u00a0for inspiring her comeback, saying, \u201cShe helped me pull it out.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An ESPN reporter accidentally called tennis pro Coco Gauff by the name \u201cSimone\u201d in an awkward on-air slip-up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":185138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2210,5723,48759,62,1464,67,132,68,1154,20886],"class_list":{"0":"post-185137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-coco-gauff","9":"tag-espn","10":"tag-simone-biles","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-us-news","17":"tag-us-open-tennis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115113249075432513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185137","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=185137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}