PARIS — Coco Gauff is 2-0 so far at the Paris Olympics after adding a 6-3, 6-0 singles victory over Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic on Sunday to a win a day earlier in doubles alongside Jessica Pegula.
Gauff also is entered in mixed doubles with Taylor Fritz, which means there could be a lot of matches left to play at the 20-year-old American’s Summer Games debut. At least she hopes so.
“People in the (athletes) village are asking: ‘Oh, how many do you need to win?'” said Gauff, who is making her Olympic debut after testing positive for COVID-19 right before she was supposed to fly to the Tokyo Games three years ago. “I’m like, ‘I don’t know. I’m in three events, and I want to win all of them.'”
For the record: It would take 15 victories — six in singles, five in women’s doubles and four in mixed doubles — to collect a trio of tennis gold medals. No one has managed to do that since tennis returned to the Olympics in 1988.
Gauff, who joined LeBron James as a flag bearer at the opening ceremony Friday night, took her latest step rather quickly, needing just 58 minutes to compile a 17-4 edge in…
