Coco Gauff is a 22 year old American tennis player, a two time Grand Slam singles champion, a former doubles world No. 1, and currently ranked No. 4 in the world. She won the US Open in 2023 at 19 and the French Open in 2025, and she has been on the tour since beating Venus Williams at Wimbledon as a 15 year old qualifier in 2019. Here is the full profile: the biography, the numbers, and where the career stands going into the second week of the 2026 US Open.
Early life and family
Gauff was born on March 13, 2004 and grew up in Delray Beach, Florida, in a family of college athletes. Her father, Corey Gauff, played basketball at Georgia State and became her first coach. Her mother, Candi Odom Gauff, was a track athlete at Florida State. She has two younger brothers, Codey and Cameron. The nickname came from an aunt, to avoid confusion with her father, since both were Cori or Corey.
The family moved from Atlanta back to Delray Beach when she was seven so she could train seriously. At 10 she spent time in France at the Mouratoglou Academy. She did her schooling through Florida Virtual School and graduated in May 2022, by which point she was already a Grand Slam finalist.
The junior career
Gauff reached the US Open junior final in 2017 at 13, then won the Roland Garros junior title in 2018 at 14. She turned professional that year.
The 2019 breakthrough
She became the youngest qualifier in Wimbledon history in 2019 and then beat Venus Williams, her childhood idol, in the first round at 15. She went on to the fourth round, the youngest player to get that far at Wimbledon since Jennifer Capriati in 1991. Her first WTA title came that autumn in Linz.
The two major titles
The first came at the 2023 US Open, where she beat Aryna Sabalenka in the final after losing the opening set. At 19 she was the youngest American woman to win in New York since Serena Williams in 1999, and it capped a summer in which she also won Washington and Cincinnati.
The second came on the Roland Garros clay in 2025, again over Sabalenka in three sets, three years after losing the 2022 final there to Iga Swiatek as an 18 year old. That 2022 run had made her the youngest major finalist since Sharapova in 2004.
In between came the 2024 WTA Finals title in Riyadh, worth a record $4.8 million, the largest single payout in the history of women’s professional sport at the time. She was the first American to win the event since Serena Williams in 2014, and she carried the United States flag at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony that year.
The doubles career
Gauff reached No. 1 in doubles in August 2022, before she had won a singles major, and has 10 doubles titles including the 2024 French Open with Katerina Siniakova. Very few players in the top five of the singles rankings take doubles that seriously.
The 2026 season
She is 43-13 on the year and 28-7 on hard courts. The signature result was the Cincinnati title in August, beating Jessica Pegula 6-2, 6-4 in the final. At Wimbledon she reached her first semifinal there after arriving without a grass court win in two years, then lost to Karolina Muchova 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 after leading 9-8 in the deciding tiebreak.
The story of her US Open has been the serve, which she reworked over the past year and which remains the volatile part of her game. She has reached the second week for the fifth straight year without dropping a set.
Off the court
Forbes has named Gauff the world’s highest paid female athlete in consecutive years, with $33 million in 2025, the majority of it from endorsements rather than prize money. Her deals include New Balance and Rolex. She has been consistently outspoken on racial equality and voter participation, going back to a speech she gave at a Delray Beach protest in 2020 at 16.
The bottom line
Two majors and a WTA Finals title before turning 23 puts Gauff ahead of the pace Serena Williams set at the same age. The lines still missing from the resume are a Wimbledon or Australian Open title and the world No. 1 ranking, and the 2026 Wimbledon semifinal suggested the grass problem is closer to solved than it looked two years ago.