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Meet Coco Gauff, the 15-year-old who has everyone at Wimbledon talking

Editor's note: This story originally published on Tuesday but has been updated with Coco Gauff's second-round win over Magdalena Rybarikova on Wednesday.

LONDON -- Corey Gauff still remembers watching the 2009 Australian Open final between Serena Williams and Dinara Safina.

It was early morning at their family home in Atlanta, but his young daughter was captivated by the match on the screen. Williams ultimately won in convincing fashion, 6-0, 6-3, to claim her 10th Grand Slam title. "She's the GOAT," Corey remembers saying in awe.

His daughter, then 4, didn't know what "GOAT" meant, but once he explained it stood for "Greatest of All Time," her eyes got wide, and she said defiantly: "I want to be the GOAT.