Coco Gauff

Cori "Coco" Gauff is an American professional tennis player. She is ranked world No. 3 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and has been ranked as high as world No. 1 in doubles. Gauff has won six WTA Tour singles titles, including a Major at the 2023 US Open, and eight doubles titles – five partnering with Jessica Pegula and three with Caty McNally.

Born to parents with NCAA Division I collegiate backgrounds in basketball and track and field, she became the No. 1 junior in the world after winning the junior 2018 French Open singles title and also won a junior major doubles title at the 2018 US Open.

Gauff made her WTA Tour debut in March 2019 at the Miami Open. She received a wild card into the qualifying draw at the 2019 Wimbledon, where she became the youngest player in the tournament's history to qualify for the main draw. She rose to prominence with a win over former world No. 1 and seven-time major singles champion Venus Williams in the opening round, going on to reach the fourth round. Later that summer, Gauff advanced to the third round of the US Open. She won the WTA Tour singles title at the 2019 Linz Open at the age of 15 years and seven months, making her the youngest singles title-holder on the Tour since 2004. In 2021, she reached her first major final in women's doubles at the US Open, and reached her first major singles final at the 2022 French Open. In 2023, she won her first WTA 1000 title at the Cincinnati Masters and her first major singles title at the US Open.

A social activist off the court, Gauff was named one of TIME's Women of the Year in 2024. At the ceremony, she dedicated her award to the monumental figures in her life, naming tennis players Venus and Serena Williams, former First Lady Michelle Obama, and her grandmother, who she says was the first Black woman to integrate the Delray Beach school system in Florida, as inspirations.