{"id":4924,"date":"2025-05-27T14:32:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T14:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/27\/coco-gouf-wins-after-rudeness-with-the-racket-and-opens-the-french-open\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:32:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T14:32:24","slug":"coco-gouf-wins-after-rudeness-with-the-racket-and-opens-the-french-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/27\/coco-gouf-wins-after-rudeness-with-the-racket-and-opens-the-french-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gouf wins after rudeness with the racket and opens the French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>PARIS &#8212; Coco Gauff caused a brief, funny delay at the French Open when she stepped into Philippe Chatelier without a racket on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Gouf seemed confused before the boy in the ball carried a pack of mint-colored rackets a few minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s better,&#8221; the court announcer said. It depicted laughter, applause and smiles from the crowd at the main tournament stadium.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0527%2Fr1498975_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0527%2Fr1498975_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0527%2Fr1498975_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0527%2Fr1498975_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Despite the confusion, no. 2nd seed Gauff defeated Australia&#8217;s Olivia Gadecki 6-2, 6-2 in her opening match.<\/p>\n<p>The American jokingly accused her coach of the missing racket.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be honest, as long as I was on tour, my coach always kept his racket in his bag because he was very superstitious,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;m blaming that at the coach. It&#8217;s fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gauff is Roland-Garros&#8217; 2022 finalist and once again became a nominee for the title.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS &#8212; Coco Gauff caused a brief, funny delay at the French Open when she stepped into Philippe Chatelier without a racket on Tuesday. Gouf seemed confused before the boy in the ball carried a pack of mint-colored rackets a few minutes later. &#8220;That&#8217;s better,&#8221; the court announcer said. It depicted laughter, applause and smiles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[57,151,58,32,68,835,834,24,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-4924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-coco","9":"tag-french","10":"tag-gouf","11":"tag-open","12":"tag-opens","13":"tag-racket","14":"tag-rudeness","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-wins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924","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=4924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}