Gauff: "Sometimes I deliberately read negative comments to use them as motivation"

Cori Gauff, author of a very fine 2024 season including a title at the WTA Finals, explains how she resources herself during the off-season.

She says: "I like to do nothing. Sometimes I feel that even taking care of myself is too much work. What I want is to do nothing, sit and rot, literally.

Those are the best days, honestly, especially when you're so busy, and it was nice to have someone to do it with (she was with her 11-year-old brother).

The American reveals an amazing thing about social networks and negative comments: "It's something a lot of people can relate to; most of them have seen how trolls on the Internet or many people in their workplace don't believe in them.

Sometimes I deliberately read the negative comments to encourage myself and use them as motivation to prove them wrong."