• Venus Williams says ‘sky’s limit’ for precocious teenager
There is precocious composure and there is Coco Gauff. It is difficult to recall a teenager thrown into the Klieg lights of global sporting celebrity so comfortable with praise yet unfailingly polite and brimming with such self-belief. Anyone who moves into her orbit would think the same: is she too good to be true?
Certainly, she was too good for Naomi Osaka here last night. In an hour and seven minutes she destroyed the defending champion for the loss of seven games. No mountain is safe. Ask Venus Williams, who won four of her seven slams before Gauff was born, but could not take a set off her in two matches in slams, most recently here this week.
Written by Kevin Mitchell at Melbourne Park
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jan/24/coco-gauff-shocks-naomi-osaka-reach-last-16-australian-open-tennis under the title “Coco Gauff routs defending champion Naomi Osaka at Australian Open”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
