Coco Gauff shares plans as Indian Wells interferes with milestone birthday

Coco Gauff will have fun her twentieth birthday on Wednesday, proper in the midst of the WTA 1000 occasion in Indian Wells. The world No. 3 has been one of the profitable youngsters in latest tennis historical past, breaking by when she was 15 and successful her first Grand Slam title as a 19-year-old. But Gauff admitted that she probably wouldn’t be celebrating her milestone birthday as she had nothing deliberate till the top of the event.

Gauff is hoping to finish her teenage years on a excessive in Indian Wells, as her birthday falls midway by the occasion. The American has already managed to earn one final file earlier than turning 20 – in her opening spherical, she became the first teenager to reach 50 match wins at WTA 1000 level.

She will now attempt to again it up towards Lucia Bronzetti in Monday’s match, probably her final on the singles court docket earlier than coming into her 20s. If Gauff advances to the final 16, it’s anticipated that she must play on her birthday. But any matches received’t get in the way in which of her plans, because the US Open winner confessed that she didn’t normally have fun.

“Yeah, it’s always difficult,” Gauff mentioned of getting a birthday in the midst of an enormous event. “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 nonetheless get her second on the finish of Indian Wells although 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.”