{"id":9347,"date":"2025-06-28T17:31:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T21:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/28\/coco-gauff-aryna-sabalenka-moves-past-comments-and-criticism\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T17:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T21:31:04","slug":"coco-gauff-aryna-sabalenka-moves-past-comments-and-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/28\/coco-gauff-aryna-sabalenka-moves-past-comments-and-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff, Aryna Sabalenka moves past comments and criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Wimbledon, England &#8211; It didn&#8217;t take long for Coco Gough and Arena Sabalenka to form a relationship after this month&#8217;s French Open final.<\/p>\n<p>As Wimbledon is about to start, Goff hopes that everyone else can forget what Top Rank Sabalenka said in the wake of Roland Garos&#8217; defeat to the Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The day after they danced together on Wimbledon&#8217;s centre court in Tiktok&#8217;s video, the two tennis players said on Saturday that the aftermath of Sabalenka&#8217;s comments had more to do with their mistakes than Gouf&#8217;s performance.<\/p>\n<p>The Belarusian later wrote to Goff to apologize, saying that while her comments were &#8220;professional,&#8221; she wasn&#8217;t in the face of a major backlash from fans and experts, especially in the US.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0628%2Fr1512353_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0628%2Fr1512353_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0628%2Fr1512353_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0628%2Fr1512353_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>Gouf is trying to make sure the criticism stops.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not the type of person who burns hatred in the world,&#8221; said Gouf, who opened the Wimbledon campaign against Dayana Yastremska on Tuesday. &#8220;I think people were over-done it&#8230; It was just really targeting and saying there wasn&#8217;t a lot of what I felt. I didn&#8217;t want to fuel it any more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka, who faces Carson Branstin at the 1st court on Monday, said she hopes that Tiktok&#8217;s video shows everything between the two.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re fine, we&#8217;re friends,&#8221; said the three-time major winner. &#8220;I hope that the US media can do it easily for me now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka reiterated that she had no intention of making Gouf mad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was totally mad at myself and the emotions got over me,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I lost it completely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gouf admitted that she was initially tempted by Sabalenka to publicly fight back.<\/p>\n<p>However, after Sabalenka reached out to apologize, she quickly buried the grim.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I preach love, I preach light,&#8221; Goff said. &#8220;We want us to become kunbaya, live happily, become hakuna matata, and be happy here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Others were also pleased to see the top two female players getting along well again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s nice to see them turning the pages about it,&#8221; said Francis Tiafour, who finished 12th in the Wimbledon men&#8217;s bracket. &#8220;That&#8217;s the biggest thing, because they&#8217;re the best players in the world. So those relationships are what you need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The American then added with a laugh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wimbledon, England &#8211; It didn&#8217;t take long for Coco Gough and Arena Sabalenka to form a relationship after this month&#8217;s French Open final. As Wimbledon is about to start, Goff hopes that everyone else can forget what Top Rank Sabalenka said in the wake of Roland Garos&#8217; defeat to the Americans. 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