Gauff prepares her revolution: "Her serve will become a real weapon" according to Rick Macci

Serve redesigned, forehand sharpened, strategy refocused... Rick Macci assures: the new version of Coco Gauff will be unrecognizable.

Jules Hypolite

le 08/12/2025 à 22h07

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Gauff Cori

Titled at Roland-Garros and Wuhan, a finalist in Madrid and Rome, Coco Gauff had a solid 2025 season. But the American also continued to struggle with her serve: with 431 double faults, she broke her own record (430) set in 2024.

To remedy this weakness, Gauff turned to Gavin McMillan, a biomechanics specialist, known for contributing to the transformation of Aryna Sabalenka's serve.

"Her serve will become a real weapon"

According to former coach Rick Macci, these new technical directions should allow Gauff to approach 2026 with a more complete version of her game, as he explained on X (formerly Twitter):

"Coco will be a different player in 2026. Her serve will become a real weapon, her forehand will be more compact, and her overall strategy will be more focused on controlling the center of the court.

She already has the best defense on the tour, and with these adjustments, she will very clearly get closer to the world number one spot."

Gauff Cori

3e, 6423 points

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I am surprised about relatively low attendance at Roland Garros which was the most popular slam 20+ years ago. I myself love it as well as really loving aus and us opens. I don't care about Wimbledon, sometimes maybe I can watch women's tennis. I hate Wimbledon's white dress code, I feel like I am watching junior tennis...I watched very few matches like Graf davenport final in 1999 the last time.....

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It will really be befitting if he attains his 25th Grand Slam crown at the AO for he's truly the GOAT & this will stamp him & endorse his GOAT status without an iota of doubt

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Almost as important to Djokovic as Slam #25--and requiring less luck--is beating Federer's total of 103 singles titles. He'll play 250s, and might even surpass Connors's 109.

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