Coco Gauff’s Wimbledon preparations embrace an escape room and Harry Potter
Coco Gauff will probably be again at Wimbledon subsequent week, 4 years after her breakthrough as a 15-year-old. The American’s profession has shut ties to the match on condition that she made her Grand Slam debut there with a shocking win over Venus Williams. Ahead of her fourth Wimbledon, Gauff has some distinctive preparations together with an escape room with fellow professional Christopher Eubanks.
Gauff is gearing up for Wimbledon with some grass-court warm-up tournaments because the world No 7 reached the last-16 in Berlin and is now in Eastbourne. As properly as getting some matches in on the floor, she is planning another issues away from the court docket earlier than heading to Wimbledon for the fourth time.
“Honestly, here I was thinking about going to a movie but I don’t know if I’ll have the time,” the 19-year-old instructed a small group of reporters in Eastbourne. “But when we get to London we’re supposed to be doing an escape room me and Chris Eubanks and a couple people from our team.”
Gauff at all times makes probably the most of immersing herself within the locations she stays for tournaments, most just lately spending time in Paris – which she manufacturers her favorite metropolis on the earth. While there, the three-time title winner noticed the Across the Spider-Verse and she or he is already planning her third screening of the movie.
“And I wanna see Spiderverse again, it’ll be the third time I saw it,” she laughed. “But I don’t know if I’ll do that again, I know I’ll see another movie.” One film that’s on Gauff’s record forward of Wimbledon is Harry Potter.
The doubles world No 4 hasn’t seen the movie sequence however desires to go to the studio in London. She added: “I haven’t watched Harry Potter but I know there’s like a little Harry Potter thing so I might try to watch it on the drive over to London, one of the movies maybe, so I can get something and feel the experience of it.”
As for Eastbourne, Gauff stated it could actually really feel like a house away from house – even when there isn’t a lot to do. “It kind of reminds me of where I live which is Delray Beach. It’s kind of a beach town like this, not much going on,” she laughed.
“Not to discredit Eastbourne but that’s just the truth – or Delray, it comes from a place of heart. There’s not much going on, everybody’s moving slow. It’s nice for a week. I don’t know if I would live here but I definitely think that it’s a good break from the tour especially when the weather is like this.
“And it does remind me of home a little bit so I definitely appreciate being here before Wimbledon and I think Wimbledon just gets really crazy so it’s nice to chill for a bit.” But Gauff gained’t be visiting the pebble seashore throughout her time at this week’s WTA 500 occasion.
“I prefer sand. I haven’t even walked out there, I’ve walked on the boardwalk but I’ve never walked out to the water because everybody says it’s cold and I don’t see what the point is if it’s cold,” she smiled.