Watching the fearless shot-making and preternatural assurance of 15-year-old Cori “Coco” Gauff at Wimbledon last week, many of us found it irresistible to reminisce on what we were doing at the same age. Most of these reflections – a few of which have been collected under a hashtag: #mylifeatfifteen – offer some variant of drinking our bodyweight in Bacardi, copiously vomiting and then passing out. The teenage experience of Gauff, who on Monday plays former world No 1 Simona Halep in the fourth round, has a very different vibe. “You can kind of fake it until you make it, but I’m not faking it, at least right now,” she said last week, a week in which the American made her grand-slam debut, beat her hero and inspiration Venus Williams and became the most exciting new force in tennis for years, maybe decades. The emergence of Gauff has been the story of Wimbledon 2019. She arrived here as a curiosity: the youngest qualifier in the tournament’s history and the first 15-year-old to compete in the main draw for a decade. The day before her first qualifying match, she was up until 11pm, not – as the Australian maverick Nick Kyrgios was… Read full this story
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