Federer’s resounding message to Coco Gauff after winning the US Open

The day after his victory at the US Open, at noon on Sunday in New York, the American Coco Gauff He will get thousands of messages, either directly on his mobile phone or through social networks.

Personalities from all spheres of sport, culture and politics have turned to a man who aims to become a symbol beyond tennis.

He has a coherent speech, a lot of maturity at the age of 19, and is said to be the result of the inheritance of two sisters. Venus and Serena Williams“with everything they have to go through,” as he pointed out, confirming the figure of two African-American women who opened a path of inspiration to many girls like Coco.

People have been talking about her since she was 15, since Wimbledon she came out of the qualifying phase in 2019 to beat her admirer Venus and reach the final.

Among those who taught his ways, one of the great ones in the ‘Cathedral’ of London, Roger Federer. The Swiss did not forget his student, with whom he maintained a special relationship. He admired her qualities, helped her sign for Team8, the representation company that she and her trusted manager run, Tony Godsick.

Federer, more restrained recently to congratulate ATP Tour colleagues on victories at Grand Slams, he sent a public letter to Coco Gauff: “Inspiring achievement. I have been watching and following you for years. Your hard work and mental strength is great for our sport. You shine brighter than ever,” the Swiss wrote alongside a photo with Gauff as a woman.

Very complimentary, emphatic. It is also true that he did not forget to tag his company.

gg.didomi.doWhenConsent(!window.didomiBypass, ‘c:instagram-tWmJgJpq’, function () {
var x = document.createElement(‘script’);
x.setAttribute(“type”,”text/javascript”);
x.setAttribute(“src”, “//www.instagram.com/embed.js”);
x.setAttribute(“charset”, “utf-8”);
$(“.instagram-media”).closest( “span” ).append(x);
});

gg.didomi.doWhenConsent(!window.didomiBypass, ‘c:twitterwi-wUmBnnKy’, function () {
var x = document.createElement(‘script’);
x.setAttribute(“type”,”text/javascript”);
x.setAttribute(“src”, “//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”);
x.setAttribute(“charset”, “utf-8”);
$(“.twitter-tweet”).closest( “span” ).append(x);
});