French Open: Coco Gauff Reveals Shocking WTA Preference After Iga Swiatek’s Brutal Dismissal

The French Open organizers faced a nightmare on Tuesday when they published the next day’s schedule, and then, within a few hours later one of the players in the prime-time night session match had to withdraw from his match. Seeing Hugo Gaston pulling out of the draw in the very last moment, the tournament was forced to scramble and replace them. The schedules at the French Open have been a hot topic of discussion recently. There have been a few complaints about the lack of female matches being scheduled for the night session at Roland Garros. Last year, while discussing this topic, defending champion Iga Swiatek claimed she doesn’t care about it because she loves to put her focus solely on her matches. Even this year, when asked a similar question, she came up with a similar reply. But what does America’s Coco Gauff have to say on this?

If we take a look at Iga Swiatek’s reply, she said, “Every year we talk about it. My position didn’t change. I like playing day. So I’m happy I’m done and can have a longer rest. On the other hand, people just try to look for, like, not even things between men and women. You can find that in the schedule a bit and you can ask us all the time. Honestly, my answers are not gonna change. I don’t mind.” Having said that, she also mentioned that she completely understands players having different preferences, but these things don’t matter to her much.

Recently, when Coco Gauff was asked to share her thoughts on the same, she said, “To be honest, prove me wrong, but I don’t think any girl wants to play after the 8:15 match.” Having said that, she further went on to add, “I think here is a unique topic because there is only one slot at 8:15. To be honest, I don’t think any girl.. I mean, prove me wrong, but I don’t think anyone wants to play after the 8:15 match. I don’t know what the other girls would think, but I think most people would rather play before that. Maybe there’s a chance to put someone at 6:30 or 7:00. I think if there is only gonna be one match at 8:15, maybe there could be a women’s match. But if they wanna start the night session at 8:15, I’m sure most girls on tour would rather not play after a men’s match and have to go on at 11:00 or 12:00. I think it’s just tournament to tournament. This tournament, this seems to me what they want. But most tournaments do have the two matches, one starting at 7:00 and one afterwards. I can’t really complain. I think it’s just up to the tournament honestly.”

Coco Gauff was asked about the lack of female matches being scheduled for the night session at Roland Garros, ‘To be honest, prove me wrong, but I don’t think any girl wants to play after the 8:15 match’

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