{"id":80225,"date":"2025-07-21T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/80225\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T09:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:04:13","slug":"what-coco-gauff-said-to-venus-williams-at-the-net-after-beating-her-at-wimbledon-as-a-15-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/80225\/","title":{"rendered":"What Coco Gauff said to Venus Williams at the net after beating her at Wimbledon as a 15-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Coco Gauff has come a long way since beating Venus Williams at Wimbledon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2019, 15-year-old Coco Gauff<\/a> stunned tennis fans across the world by beating five-time Wimbledon<\/a> Ladies Singles champion, Venus Williams, to win her first-round match at SW19.<\/p>\n

Gauff, who was recently labelled as the biggest star in tennis<\/a>, has gone on to become a two-time Grand Slam champion. The American won her maiden slam at the 2023 US Open<\/a> before capturing the 2025 French Open<\/a> title.<\/p>\n

Venus Williams, now 45 years of age, will suit up for her first WTA Tour-level match in 16 months after accepting a wild card invitation to compete at the Washington Open. Venus last played at the 2024 Miami Open, where she lost to Diana Shnaider in the first round.<\/p>\n

\"CoriPhoto by Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Williams\u2019 stunning comeback represents the dogged determination she holds, while contrasting the relative youth of some of her prospective opponents.<\/p>\n

As Williams attempts to make a comeback, it is worth taking a closer look at her historic match against Coco Gauff in 2019.<\/p>\n

Coco Gauff thanked Venus Williams for being an \u2018inspiration\u2019<\/p>\n

Gauff, who was ranked 313 in the world at the time, spoke candidly at her post-match press conference, despite the enormity of what she had achieved.<\/p>\n

At the post-match press conference, it was put to Gauff that she seemed \u2018almost apologetic\u2019 when speaking to Venus at the net following her victory.<\/p>\n

Gauff said: \u201cI wasn\u2019t apologising! I was just telling her thank you for everything that she\u2019s done for the sport and she\u2019s been an inspiration for many people and I was just really telling her thank you.<\/p>\n

\u201cI met her before but I didn\u2019t really have the guts to say anything so I was like \u2018now or never.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Gauff was then told by a reporter that Serena Williams had commented, saying the young American reminded her of Venus.<\/p>\n

Gauff responded: Oh yes, I definitely get compared to Venus a lot. Our body shape is kind of the same, we\u2019re both tall, obviously play similar.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut when I\u2019m on the court I just feel like me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coco Gauff\u2019s round of 16 run at Wimbledon 2019<\/p>\n

Coco Gauff\u2019s run at Wimbledon 2019 did not end with victory over Venus Williams.<\/p>\n

After defeating Williams, Gauff comfortably defeated 2017 Wimbledon semi-finalist Magdalena Rybarikova, winning by a scoreline of 6-3 6-3.<\/p>\n\nWimbledon 2019 Round<\/strong><\/td>\nOpponent<\/strong><\/td>\nScore<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nRound One<\/td>\nVenus Williams<\/td>\nwon 6-4 6-4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nRound Two<\/td>\nMagdalena Rybarikova<\/td>\nwon 6-3 6-3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nRound Three<\/td>\nPolona Hercog<\/td>\nwon 3-6 7-6 (9-7) 7-5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nRound Four<\/td>\nSimona Halep<\/td>\nlost 3-6 3-6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Gauff then foreshadowed her developing grit and determination by saving two match points to defeat Polona Hercog, 3-6 7-6 7-5. The victory was particularly impressive because Gauff came back from the brink of defeat at 5-2 down in the second set.<\/p>\n

However, Gauff ran into Simona Halep in the fourth round. The Romanian star won 6-3 6-3 before going on to win the Wimbledon title that year, after defeating Serena Williams<\/a> in the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff has come a long way since beating Venus Williams at Wimbledon. In 2019, 15-year-old Coco Gauff…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":80226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2210,62,1464,67,132,68,46604,2071,48336],"class_list":{"0":"post-80225","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-venus-williams","15":"tag-wimbledon","16":"tag-wta-tennis-players"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114890425512325824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80225","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=80225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}