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Coco Gauff was pleased with how she responded when she was finally given the green light to enter the court but also made it clear that she found the Miami Open’s “unrealistic not before” times as “weird.”
On Friday, No. 3 seed Gauff was scheduled to take on qualifier Nadia Podoroska in the opening match at Stadium 1. But because rain was falling, the American tennis star couldn’t start her Miami match as scheduled at 11 am.
For Friday, Miami’s weather forecast didn’t look promising at all and some feared there wouldn’t be any action for the day. But the Miami organizers kept hoping dark clouds would go away and they kept pushing back the start of play for approximately an hour.
At 5 pm local time – after hours of waiting in the players’ lounge and hoping for the best – the play finally started and Gauff and Podoroska got to the court. When the match finally started, Gauff was al business as she destroyed Podoroska 6-1 6-2 to reach the Miami third round.
“Yeah, so I came as normal schedule, even I knew it was going to rain. Shortened my warm-up before I hit so I could get a chance to hit. I did hit 15 minutes at, like, 9 in the morning. Don’t know if that made a difference because we played so much later,” Gauff…
