{"id":90025,"date":"2025-09-01T20:33:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T00:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=90025"},"modified":"2025-09-01T20:33:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T00:33:47","slug":"coco-gauff-us-open-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/09\/01\/coco-gauff-us-open-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Devastated Coco Gauff Admits She &#8220;Broke Down&#8221; After US Open Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coco Gauff&#8217;s dream of winning a second <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/us-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">US Open<\/a> title ended against two-time champion Naomi Osaka on Monday. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/09\/01\/naomi-osaka-coco-gauff-us-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">The home favorite was thrashed 2-6 3-6<\/a> after being thoroughly outclassed by her Japanese opponent. In her post-match press conference, Gauff revealed how hard she took the loss but also tried to look for positives from the match.<\/p>\n<h4>Gauff admits to breaking down after losing to Osaka<\/h4>\n<p>Gauff found it challenging to speak with her team immediately after the match and broke down in tears. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/06\/07\/coco-gauff-wins-first-french-open-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">this year&#8217;s French Open winner<\/a> thinks there are improvements compared to before the US Open, especially on serve. Gauff <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/08\/20\/coco-gauff-coaching-change-days-before-us-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">hired biomechanics coach Gavin MacMillan<\/a> to help with her serve a few days before the season&#8217;s final Grand Slam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that trying to be more positive. After the match I was really disappointed. I kind of broke down to my team. Then hearing their perspectives and everything, it definitely is a lot of positive things. I think if I kept the way I was going in Cincinnati to here, I would have been out the first round. So I think where my serve started from the start of the tournament to today was a big improvement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like now I just have to get everything to work together. But, yeah, I knew going in it was going to be a tough tournament for me. Did I feel like I had a lot of confidence after my last match? Yeah, definitely. I think that was a big confidence booster. So today feels more disappointing I think than maybe it would have felt losing in the first or second round.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a  id=\"9eojfGkYRF1No9igDeGXlg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2233235678\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'9eojfGkYRF1No9igDeGXlg',sig:'XI8Fy99EMVw_icjzgTcR99bzJ-d7li3berQdb_-HYoA=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'2233235678',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Gauff names the biggest reason for her loss<\/h4>\n<p>The world No. 2 praised Osaka for her performance. She thinks making too many mistakes during the rallies was a more significant problem than her serve, which the 21-year-old believes functioned better than in the opening three rounds.<br \/>\n\u201cNaomi played well. Today was disappointing, because I felt it was the best I served all tournament. A lot of aces. Yeah, there were some doubles, but I thought, like, that was a good performance from me serving. Off the ground I think I just made way too many mistakes, way too many errors, which I feel like that&#8217;s the part of my game that I felt the most confident in coming into the tournament.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So it was kind of a weird match, like, feeling confident in different areas swapping. Yeah, I mean, it&#8217;s disappointing. For sure it was not the level that I wanted to bring, but it is a step in the right direction I feel, and I think emotionally how much this week was, I think today I just stepped in, and I maybe was a little bit empty. She forced me to earn every point out there today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O9Y67vnWVp8?si=LLEZugYqAf_YvEJg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Susan Mullane-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coco Gauff&#8217;s dream of winning a second US Open title ended against two-time champion Naomi Osaka on Monday. The home favorite was thrashed 2-6 3-6 after being thoroughly outclassed by her Japanese opponent. In her post-match press conference, Gauff revealed how hard she took the loss but also tried to look for positives from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4708,"featured_media":84600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,8,4],"tags":[42770,2747,476],"class_list":["post-90025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-us-open","category-wta","tag-2025-us-open","tag-coco-gauff","tag-naomi-osaka"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90039,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90025\/revisions\/90039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}