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Coco Gauff showed that she is not a matter of joke on clay yesterday! After her heartbreak in the Roland Garros singles, this US Open champion made a ravishing comeback with her Czech Republican partner in doubles. As Gauff makes another unbelievable record in her career, the biggest cheerleader in her life, Candi Gauff comes to express her happiness on winning her “first ever doubles grand slam.” Joining Gauff’s mother, her colleagues also showered their love for Coco’s unimaginable feat at just 20!

Coco Gauff took to her official Instagram profile to share snippets from her Roland Garros Doubles win yesterday at the Philippe Chatrier court. Partnering with Czech Republican tennis player Katarina Siniakova, Gauff defeated Italy’s Jasmine Paolini and Sara Errani by 7-6(5), and 6-3. “i’m so happy to have won my first ever doubles grand slam with @siniakovakaterina 💙💙 it’s been a fun two weeks here in Paris and i am so thankful to be able to finish it with a W! thanks everyone for all of the kind messages !!!” – wrote Gauff.

Gauff’s post received a huge amount of applause from her mother and her colleagues. This reigning US Open champion’s mother dropped her “Congratulations!!!” for her daughter’s recent achievement. She also expressed her feelings as she said “Great victory!” while congratulating her daughter.

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Proud mother Candi Gauff also shared WTA’s Instagram post on her story to express how proud she is of her daughter’s recent success in Roland Garros. Gauff’s famous doubles partner Jessica Pegula was also there in the comment list wishing her friend and colleague more of such endeavors with her comment- “Let’s goooo.” Pegula also added a trophy emoji to express her happiness about her friend’s excellent doubles achievement in Paris. Jessica Pegula helped Gauff to enter the US Open 2022 Doubles finals. Despite their remarkable partnership, Gauff couldn’t win the title with her friend, Pegula.

Coco Gauff’s debut Grand Slam Doubles victory caught the eyes of another WTA star, Taylor Townsend and she expressed her delight with her series of emojis on the comment. Towsend dropped a hi-five emoji along with fire and love emojis to show that she has nothing but love for this fire girl of tennis. Coco Gauff’s other American colleague Alycia Parks also didn’t waste a minute to drop her “congrats!!” for Gauff.

Parks also added a fire and fist emoji to show that she would love to fistbump her fire-like girlfriend on such an extraordinary performance in the Philippe Chatrier Court. In a nutshell, Coco’s mother and her peers were truly over the moon seeing Gauff’s remarkable achievement in the Paris Grand Slam at just 20. Following this feat, Gauff joined the record of a tennis veteran making her country immensely proud.

Coco Gauff joined former WTA star’s record after winning her debut Grand Slam Doubles title in Paris

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Gauff not only won her debut Grand Slam Doubles title yesterday but she made a record by being the youngest WTA star to win Grand Slam trophies in both singles and doubles at 20. Before her, Russian former tennis player Svetlana Kuznetsova was the one to achieve this feat. She earned her debut singles Grand Slam title in the US Open in 2004 at 19 and bagged her debut Grand Slam doubles title in the Australian Open in 2005 with Alicia Molik.

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Third time’s a charm. Thank you, Katerina, for playing with me. We decided two days before the tournament to play together, Thank you to the fans. I know 11:30 Sunday morning is early for most people. It’s early for me”- said delighted Gauff after her victory.

Nevertheless, Coco Gauff’s mother and her friends show that with positive support, anyone can achieve their goals. Despite having a heartbreaking exit from the singles, Gauff showed her resilience and spirit to make a great comeback with her doubles feat.