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winner of the US Open Coco Gauff will play the China Open against Ekaterina Alexandrova, but in the meantime she received great praise from Mark Petchey, who called Coco the best female athlete to ever play tennis. During the Inside-In podcast, Mark Petchey explained: “It’s just that the other players on the tour are a little bit hostile in how he moves the ball, especially on the forehand side.
I don’t know, I don’t think we’ve seen a better athlete in women’s tennis, and that’s another thing that’s going to be a problem for a lot of players out there, plus the pressure is off.
I think she is the best athlete among women playing tennis.
You can’t tell me, tennis, even if there’s Steffi Graf, who I think, I think, is the second greatest athletic tennis player of all time, you can’t tell me that the game is played in same speed. then than now.”
Roddick: “Coco Gauff’s victory at the US Open is a poem”
During his usual report on Betway, former world number one Andy Roddick commented on the tennis player’s performances at the US Open: “I am one of those people who wonder what tennis would do without Roger, Rafa and Serena Williams.
The timing of Coco Gauff’s victory could not be better, especially for the development of tennis in the United States. Coco Gauff won her first Slam in the same place where Serena left a year ago, all this is poetic, let’s not forget that Serena and Venus have always been her idols.
Roddick then reviewed the women’s US Open and the winner’s tournament: “Coco never played her best tennis in the tournament and it was impressive.
In the final she was good with the strategy, after the first set she understood that she could not fight Aryna’s ball and because of that she decided to put it on the run and counter and in the end Sabalenka exploded.”
At the end of the women’s tennis season: “Four Slam winners in four years, there’s a good balance and it’s interesting.
It’s like we’re witnessing what happened to men at the beginning of the 80s and it’s much more interesting than watching a fight with only one or two tennis players at the top.