{"id":21726,"date":"2025-08-20T20:21:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/coco-gough-shakes-the-coaching-staff-ahead-of-us-fires-matt-daly-and-replaces-him-with-former-coach-alina-sabalenka\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T20:21:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:21:53","slug":"coco-gough-shakes-the-coaching-staff-ahead-of-us-fires-matt-daly-and-replaces-him-with-former-coach-alina-sabalenka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/coco-gough-shakes-the-coaching-staff-ahead-of-us-fires-matt-daly-and-replaces-him-with-former-coach-alina-sabalenka\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gough shakes the coaching staff ahead of us, fires Matt Daly and replaces him with former coach Alina Sabalenka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Coco Gauff fired a member of her coaching staff, Matt Daly, a few days before the launch of the US.<\/p>\n<p>She replaced him with Gavin Macmillan, a biomechanics expert believed to have helped Aryna Sabalenka fix her serve and rise to the number one ranking in the world.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Daly confirmed his firing Wednesday to tennis reporter Ben Rosenberg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were only good things to say about Coco and I enjoyed working with her,&#8221; Gouf told Rothenberg.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(<\/strong><strong>Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Football League for the 2025 NFL season<\/strong><strong>))<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gauff hired grip specialist Daly to work on her serve and forehand after firing then-coach Brad Gilbert, following the 2023 tournament win and following the disappointing fourth round exit at the 2024 US Open.<\/p>\n<p>But Gouf has struggled since his victory. She tracked France&#8217;s open victory in a stunning first-round defeat at Wimbledon. She recently lost in the quarterfinals of the Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>According to Rothenberg and The Athletic, Macmillan and Gauff&#8217;s longtime coach Jean-Christophe Faurel were working with Gouf at the Billy Junking Tennis Center in New York on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Gauff&#8217;s team athletic confirmed the coaching transaction. Gouf had not dealt with the shakeup early on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff will enter the US Open as the world&#8217;s third-place player behind No. 1 Sabalenka and No. 2 Iga\u015bwi\u0105tek, who won the Cincinnati Open. Single-player at the US Open is scheduled to start on Sunday. The US open draw will be announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coco Gauff fired a member of her coaching staff, Matt Daly, a few days before the launch of the US. She replaced him with Gavin Macmillan, a biomechanics expert believed to have helped Aryna Sabalenka fix her serve and rise to the number one ranking in the world. advertisement Daly confirmed his firing Wednesday to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[410,2641,1237,263,57,5882,659,1928,1988,5885,224,2675,2132,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-21726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ahead","9":"tag-alina","10":"tag-coach","11":"tag-coaching","12":"tag-coco","13":"tag-daly","14":"tag-fires","15":"tag-gough","16":"tag-matt","17":"tag-replaces","18":"tag-sabalenka","19":"tag-shakes","20":"tag-staff","21":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}