Coco Gauff has achieved in individual sport what no other Polish athlete in the entire history of Poland has achieved. And it’s not the end. Well done

Coco has athletic genes with both her parents being Division I NCAA athletes. Her mother, Candi Gauff, had been a track and field athlete at Florida State University, where she competed in the heptathlon. Candi won South Florida Sun Sentinel Athlete of the Year twice. Prior to Track and Field Candi was a gymnast but switched sports when her parents would not allow her to move to train. Candi went on to become an educator and later had to home-school Coco due to her competition schedule, taking schooling so seriously that Coco was completing tests during Wimbledon.

Her father Corey Gauff, played basketball at Georgia State University, later working as a healthcare executive. Corey later became Coco’s primary coach, with the assistance of other coaches for technical expertise when she began playing tennis at age 6 in Atlanta.

Coco also has two younger brothers — Cameron and Codey.

Coco experimented with gymnastics, soccer, basketball like her father, and track relays like her mother. But Coco quickly showed passion for tennis being quoted saying:

“I wasn’t much of a team person. I loved tennis. I was so-so about it in the beginning because when I was younger I didn’t want to practice at all. I just wanted to play with my friends.