Wednesday is Mailbag Day…but, as the U.S. Open showed us, sometimes things that are supposed to happen on Wednesday have to wait until Thursday…
Without a further ado, though…
How impressed should I be with Coco Gauff and how much is this another case of the media hyping a young athlete? I honesty can’t tell.
—Judy, New York
• Impressed. But we are all trying to calibrate and balance. I speak only for myself, but I have some discomfort talking too breathlessly about the prospects of a 15-year-old. She should be a high school sophomore right now, with worries that don’t go beyond getting the right geometry teacher and the release date of season four of Stranger Things.