• Glimpse of future as five-times Wimbledon champion beaten
If it was not quite a handing over of the torch, it was surely a glimpse of the future. At 39, Venus Williams has been spending more and more time looking in the rear-view mirror and in the 15-year-old American Cori Gauff she found an opponent who looked like her and played like her, only slightly better. And while Williams’s best days may be behind her, Gauff has many more to come.
In her first grand-slam match, having become the youngest player to qualify for the main draw, Gauff showed the talent and composure that is usually seen only a handful of times every generation as she upended Williams 6-4, 6-4 in the first round at Wimbledon, a grand arrival on the grandest of stages. She next plays Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia.
Written by Simon Cambers at Wimbledon
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jul/01/cori-coco-gauff-beats-venus-williams-wimbledon-first-round under the title “Cori Gauff, 15, eclipses Venus Williams in Wimbledon first round”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
