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Coco Gauff Press Conference After Loss in 3rd Round | Roland-Garros 2026 · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Cocoa tough battle today. Just give us your first thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: Of the match.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I don't know, I had chances, so
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  Speaker 1: I think just trying to capitalize more on these good
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  Speaker 1: points that I'm hitting and not quite finishing. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think that was the difference that she was able
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  Speaker 1: to finish the points and I wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: Question so I could go to flock today. What was
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  Speaker 3: the most frustrating out there today that maybe you couldn't
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  Speaker 3: play the game you wanted or have the sensations you
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  Speaker 3: were used to, maybe playing a bit defensive, But did
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  Speaker 3: you did you see that coming?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think again, just like not capitalizing on
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  Speaker 1: certain shots. I mean that three all, I had a
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  Speaker 1: couple of breakpoints and miss think two back ends or
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  Speaker 1: three back ends, which just can't happen in that scenario.
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  Speaker 1: So I think, I don't know. I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 1: practicing well, and when the moments get there, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: quite translating that I do it at times, and then
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  Speaker 1: I also don't do it. So I think it's just
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  Speaker 1: a learning experience and hopefully when I'm in this position again,
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  Speaker 1: I can make better decisions.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you've had a lot of success in your career,
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  Speaker 2: being able to win matches where you're not always playing
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  Speaker 2: your best, it's one of your strengths. I'm just wondering
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  Speaker 2: if you felt like you could still get over the
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  Speaker 2: line today even if things were not firing for you
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  Speaker 2: and just get what ultimately was not able to get
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  Speaker 2: you to escape this one.
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  Speaker 1: I think just I lost this. I feel like I
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  Speaker 1: lost the same way in Rome as I did here,
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  Speaker 1: which is not good. I think, I don't know. You
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  Speaker 1: never want to lose the same way back to buy times,
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  Speaker 1: and I did, and I feel like also in Madrid
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  Speaker 1: it was a similar thing, losing the same way, So
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  Speaker 1: it's one thing to lose. But I think today I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I competed like I fought my hardest, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I played the way I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: in the crucial moments.
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  Speaker 4: Just looking ahead to Wimbledon, if you can, it was
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  Speaker 4: a pretty good serving performance today. Do you take confidence
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  Speaker 4: and the improvement and the serve and what do you
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  Speaker 4: think the impact will be from that at Wimbledon?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, obviously the serve is more consistent of
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  Speaker 1: I'm not holding serf, which is the issue. I guess
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  Speaker 1: who cares how many serves I make in the court.
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  Speaker 1: If i'm the result is still the same, so I guess.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously the grass I think will help a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more, but I think I could have served
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  Speaker 1: more aggressive at some points and did more patterns that
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  Speaker 1: I work on in practice today I just didn't do. So, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's more consistent and I have a lot of trust
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  Speaker 1: now in my serf. But at the same time, I
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  Speaker 1: got broken a lot of times and I have to
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  Speaker 1: correct that.
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  Speaker 5: When you got to six or five in the second
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  Speaker 5: set and then three to one in the third set,
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  Speaker 5: did you think, Okay, I've got this under control. I
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  Speaker 5: think you get that sort of feeling like the opponent
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  Speaker 5: was going to go away at this point.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you never obviously you win some games in
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  Speaker 1: a row, so you feel like the momentum is on
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  Speaker 1: your end. But it's pro sports, so I never feel
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  Speaker 1: completely comfortable, to be honest, until the match is over.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I think that's maybe the issue too, that
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  Speaker 1: when I see the momentum is on my side, I
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  Speaker 1: should put my keep putting my foot on the gas
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  Speaker 1: instead of maybe letting up a little bit. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that's what I did. Cook go tough one today
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  Speaker 1: in terms of, you know, playing against the top of us.
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  Speaker 1: She can She's a player that isn't automatic. When she
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  Speaker 1: has leads, she can kind of let them go. How
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  Speaker 1: tricky is that to play against as well? When you
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  Speaker 1: maybe sometimes want to put, you know, your foot on
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  Speaker 1: the gas pedal, but if you don't, she might you know,
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  Speaker 1: back up a little bit and vice versa. Did you
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  Speaker 1: struggle with that in your head at all?
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  Speaker 5: Either?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I kind of noticed, like obviously in the
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  Speaker 1: second set, she I really broke her so many times
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  Speaker 1: and I could have held and maybe if I hold
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  Speaker 1: one time at four to two or at four to
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  Speaker 1: make it four to three instead of five to two,
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  Speaker 1: could be different. But yeah, I think when I, you know,
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  Speaker 1: most players, I feel like when they have the lead,
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  Speaker 1: they kind of, especially against me, kind of get a
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  Speaker 1: little bit tight. And that show today. But obviously when
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  Speaker 1: you kind of like lose a lead, I've been in
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  Speaker 1: that position and you're playing from behind, you're a lot
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  Speaker 1: more freeer because you're just like whatever. And I think
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  Speaker 1: I need to have that same mentality when I'm in
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  Speaker 1: behind playing like that to get back into the lead,
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  Speaker 1: and I need to figure out how to make that
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  Speaker 1: mental switch of keeping that level of play when I
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  Speaker 1: do have the league, because I think I five two
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  Speaker 1: to six five, I played great, and after that the
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  Speaker 1: tiebreaker was really bad.
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  Speaker 2: This is your second time being defending champion at a major,
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  Speaker 2: just wondering how much, if at all, that sort of
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  Speaker 2: status affected how how you played.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think at US Open it did a
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  Speaker 1: lot more, but honestly, this time it didn't. I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: really nervous. I was nervous in my first round, but
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  Speaker 1: after that, I wasn't really nervous going into today, and
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't really thinking about it. I think I learned
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  Speaker 1: from my US Open experience, so I don't really think
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  Speaker 1: it played a result like I played a part in
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  Speaker 1: the result today. Yeah, but I don't know. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's what's more frustrating, because I felt like I learned
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  Speaker 1: a lot from that US Open experience and am a
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  Speaker 1: better player since then, and I just don't think I
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  Speaker 1: portrayed that today