Teenage prodigy, Coco Gauff, is set to partner with tennis legend Venus Williams for women’s doubles at French Open 2021. Both of them have said a lot about each other in the press conferences and like themselves, even fans can’t wait to see them together on the court.

Gauff had a trusted and long-time doubles partner in fellow American Caty McNally. However, she got injured during the qualifying stages of Roland Garros and hence dropped out. But then, that opened a door for Venus to become Coco’s partner. And Venus‘ yes came as a surprise to Gauff, who didn’t expect it to happen.

“I enjoy playing doubles. I’m actually super happy, because I reached out to — well, my dad reached out to Venus’ team last minute, because unfortunately my partner, I was playing with Caty, she got hurt in quallies, and we thought it was best if she rest and get ready for the grass.

“So I reached out last minute and I wasn’t expecting a yes, to be honest. It was worth the ask.”

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Coco Gauff wants to learn from Venus Williams

It will be amazing to see a veteran of the sport in Venus play alongside one of the emerging talents in Coco. Venus is 40 whereas Coco is 17 and that age difference is massive in numbers as well as experience. Coco has a lot to grasp from Venus, who is a former singles finalist and a two-time doubles champion at Roland Garros.

“I’m happy that she said yes, and it’s going to be super exciting and for me, I love playing doubles and, you know like, hopefully, I can pick up some things from her she obviously has so many grand slams and doubles, and, you know, I want to win grand slams and singles and doubles so maybe this week we can have a good run these two weeks.”

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Gauff and Venus are going to start their doubles match against 13th seed Zheng Saisai and Ellen Perez. Let’s see how youth and experience can combine and probably do well at Roland Garros.

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