Mailbag: U.S. Open Week One; Should We Buy the Coco Gauff Hype?

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. Instead, she is winning…