As Coco Gauff readies for the first Grand Slam of the year, a reminder of the Paris Olympics is never far from her.
“One of the goals I wrote down on my vision thing, vision note, in my phone, was to win a medal in the Olympics,” she said Friday, two days before the Australian Open starts. “I’ll be completely honest, I don’t really care what event it is in. I feel like a gold, silver or bronze, whatever medal it is, is one of those things it doesn’t matter. Well, it does matter. Obviously I want to win in singles. I feel like I would appreciate it just as much whether it was in singles or doubles. It’s not the same to me as a Slam, I guess, in a way. I just put ‘I want a medal at any of the events.’”
Gauff said that, ideally, she wants to play all of singles, doubles and mixed doubles at the Paris Games. Competition will be at Roland Garros, where Gauff was runner-up in singles and doubles at the 2022 French Open.
