The American teenager believes she has taken many lessons from her previous encounters with the japanese and hopes to place them to good use in their second-round clash on Wednesday.
Gauff and Osaka first locked horns at the 2019 US Open.
The American was dismantled 6-3, 6-0 by the japanese thereon occasion.
Reminiscing that encounter after her first-round convert Hsieh Su-wei in Cincinnati, Gauff admitted that she was under tons of pressure to deliver against Osaka, considering she had just made her Slam breakthrough a couple of months prior at Wimbledon, where she upset Venus Williams.
Gauff said the load of expectations need to her and prevented her from playing her best tennis.
However, the American believes she is now better-equipped to affect the pressure.
Coco Gauff features a “lot more fun” when she doesn’t specialise in meeting expectations of others, says it’s okay to be “selfish” sometimes Coco Gauff recently gave her thoughts on her upcoming match against Naomi Osaka at the Western & Southern Open.
The American teenager believes she has taken many lessons from her previous encounters with the japanese and hopes to place them to good use in their second-round clash on Wednesday.
Gauff and Osaka first locked horns at the 2019 US Open.
The American was dismantled 6-3, 6-0 by the japanese thereon occasion.
Reminiscing that encounter after her first-round convert Hsieh Su-wei in Cincinnati, Gauff admitted that she was under tons of pressure to deliver against Osaka, considering she had just made her Slam breakthrough a couple of months prior at Wimbledon, where she upset Venus Williams.
Gauff said the load of expectations need to her and prevented her from playing her best tennis.
However, the American believes she is now better-equipped to affect the pressure.
