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USA’s Coco Gauff skyrockets WTA ranking to dawn the new age

Turning pro at 14, USA’s Coco Gauff has wasted no time soaring through the WTA ranking ladder and displaying extraordinary talents for her age.

Seventeen-year-old Coco Gauff of the United States talks to the media ahead of the 2021 Western & Southern Open WTA 1000 tennis tournament.

Cori “Coco” Gauff has not had an ordinary teenage life, to say the least. She is a dreamer who defined her goal at an early age and has been purposeful about her actions towards it. From making huge ranking leaps in the ITF Junior Circuit to an insanely early debut in the WTA Tour, the young American has taken the world of women’s tennis by storm and is cracking open a new age for the sport.