Coco Gauff makes brutally honest confession after shock Toronto loss

After the Olympics, Gauff came to Toronto, only to lose in the round-of-16 to Diana Shnaider.

Coco Gauff was straight honest following a shock Toronto exit as the American tennis star admitted she wondered whether playing in Canada was a good idea since she knew that she would 100 percent feel tired and exhausted this week.

After a first-round bye at the tournament, Gauff started her campaign at the WTA 1000 tournament in Toronto with a 6-4 6-4 win over Wang Yafan. But after overcoming the Wang challenge, Gauff couldn’t do more as 20-year-old Russian Diana Shnaider dismantled the top seed 6-4 6-1 in the round-of-16 on Friday evening.

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Before coming to Toronto, Gauff, 20, made her Olympic debut in Paris – where she took part in three competitions on the clay courts of Roland Garros.

Since Toronto was starting just days after the Paris Olympics, it was clear from the start that the tournament would likely lose some of the top players in this year’s edition. And exactly that happened as Iga Swiatek, Elena Rybakina, Zheng Qinwen, Barbora Krejcikova and Donna Vekic all pulled out of Toronto.

But 2023 US Open champion Gauff went a different route.

“I mean, I knew I was going to go into this tired either way, that’s just how it is. Yeah, there’s sometimes I question like whether I should have played or not, but at the end of the day I wanted to test myself and see if I would be able to, how I would do being mentally tired a little bit and physically fatigued. I said going into the tournament I didn’t have high expectations, but I wish I could have competed better today, even if it resulted in a loss. I don’t think I competed well,” Gauff explained.