“You have to learn to go forward to the net,” said Corey Gauff, her father and head coach. The buzz surrounding Gauff is a brand of mania to which Williams can certainly relate, considering the buzz she herself generated as a teenager in the 1990s. “She clearly wants it, works very hard, is extremely mature for her age,” Williams said of Gauff. “When we saw the draw, we went, ‘There’s no way that’s random,’” Corey Gauff said with a chuckle. The Gauff family has seen a lot of the Williams sisters of late.

Source: New York Times January 20, 2020 13:48 UTC