Candi Gauff showed off her own athleticism in her daughter’s quarterfinal victory, using her bare hands to catch a tennis ball that was hit into the stands.”Thank you guys. You believed in me from the beginning,” she said to her parents, adding of a special U.S.
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Open memory, “My dad took me to this tournament, sitting right there, watching Venus and Serena compete, so it’s really incredible to win on this stage.”Coco Gauff added that her history-making U.S. Open run — she is the first American teen to win the tournament since Serena Williams in 1999 — prompted her dad to do something she had never seen him do before.
“Today was the first time I’ve ever seen my dad cry,” she said. “He doesn’t want me to tell y’all that, but he got caught in 4K. He thinks he’s so hard, but [he’s] not.”
