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Coco Gauff’s birthday falls in the middle of the WTA 1000 tournament in Indian Wells.
Coco Gauff will celebrate her 20th birthday on Wednesday, right in the middle of the WTA 1000 event in Indian Wells. The world No. 3 has been one of the most successful teenagers in recent tennis history, breaking through when she was 15 and winning her first Grand Slam title as a 19-year-old. But Gauff admitted that she likely wouldn’t be celebrating her milestone birthday as she had nothing planned until the end of the tournament.
Gauff is hoping to end her teenage years on a high in Indian Wells, as her birthday falls halfway through the event. The American has already managed to earn one last record before turning 20 – in her opening round, she became the first teenager to reach 50 match wins at WTA 1000 level.
She will now try to back it up against Lucia Bronzetti in Monday’s match, likely her last on the singles court before entering her 20s. If Gauff advances to the last 16, it is expected that she will have to play on her birthday. But any matches won’t get in the way of her plans, as the US Open winner confessed that she didn’t usually celebrate.
“Yeah, it’s always difficult,” Gauff said of having a birthday in the middle of a big tournament. “I really haven’t celebrated that much since I’ve been playing professional tennis, just because this tournament always falls on my birthday. Sometimes we go to dinner, but, you know, don’t know when I’m going to play.”
The world No. 3 will still get her moment at the end of Indian Wells though as she added: “So yeah, we’ll do a dinner but probably not on the actual day. Maybe at the end of the tournament.
“I’m not a huge, like, birthday, like, I obviously love celebrating, but, you know, I’m not, like, the partying, go-out type. I don’t have anything planned. Yeah, probably a dinner or something.”
With just days left of her teens, Gauff is already plotting to lift more big titles in her 20s. Reflecting on the first five years of her professional career, the seven-time title winner said: “I’m really happy with how my teenage years went.
“I did everything that I wanted to do which the biggest one was win a Major as a teenager. So now hopefully I can win a couple more in my 20s and yeah. Age is just a number. I’m going to be out here for at least another 10 years so I’ll see you guys then.”
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