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Boris Becker believes Coco Gauff is the superstar WTA needs.Former German tennis icon talked about this issue on Eurosport Germany’s podcast Das Gelbe vom Ball, explaining:“Coco Gauff is a great personality with a lot of charisma.
She comes from America, which is the promised land of tennis with the most big tournaments. The women’s scene needs a superstar, and I’ll say Coco Gauff is one. It’s always difficult when you’re 15 years old and already being touted as the next superstar of the tennis scene by us experts.
That doesn’t make life any easier for a 15-year-old. That means the pressure increases, the expectations rise, and you also lose a bit of patience. Now I finally have to win something big. No, it was the final in Paris, but the big breakthrough didn’t happen.
In this respect, I call this a breakthrough, it can be compared to Jannik Sinner, and now she is also in the tight circle of the absolute top favorites for the US Open, and that is nice for the scene. This summer, now on the American hard courts, she won the tournament in Washington and beat world number one Swiatek for the first time in the semi-finals in Cincinnati to win the final against
