While Gauff advanced, Naomi Osaka fell in the second round to American Emma Navarro in Osaka’s first appearance at the All England Club since 2019.
Coco Gauff won her first-round match in one hour, six minutes thanks in part to her blistering serve. WIMBLEDON, England — The tennis star is managing her down time like most anyone these days, voluntarily spiking her anxiety by watching FX’s “The Bear” then winding back down with a good book — Caleb Azumah Nelson’s “Small Worlds,” currently, and before that the famed drag queen RuPaul Charles’s newest memoir.
Gauff, the No. 2 seed at Wimbledon, zipped through her second-round match Wednesday against Romanian qualifier Anca Todoni, 6-2, 6-1, in 1 hour 6 minutes to set up a third-round match that’s sure to draw plenty of eyes at the All England Club when she faces British player Sonay Kartal.The quick victory was a continuation of a new pattern this year for the 20-year-old from Florida, a contrast to the early-round matches of last year’s Grand Slams.
“I think I’m just going for it more and accepting the misses,” Gauff said. “I think today, I had a really low first-serve percentage in the first set and maybe in the second it got higher,” Gauff said. She made 38 percent of her first serves in the first set and 53 percent in the second. “It was a lot of different names, which is something new — not new, kind of new, post Serena , post a lot of the legends,” Gauff said. “It just shows there’s a lot of talent on the women’s tour and it’s anybody’s game … My outlook, I mean, it gives you confidence obviously when you see that the field isn’t stacked. I guess stacked in the way where there’s one player dominating or three players dominating. I think everybody has an equal shot and it’s just about who can perform better that week.
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