Coco Gauff on Beating Venus Williams, Taking Advice From Fellow Athletes, and Blocking Out the Noise | Winging It

Winging It With Vince Carter

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Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Vince and Annie sit down with 15-year-old phenom Coco Gauff to talk about her meteoric rise in the tennis world. Coco breaks down what it was like beating one of her idols, Venus Williams (02:49), as well as how she turns outside negativity into motivation (19:23). The gang is also joined by Coco’s father and coach, Cory, and he talks about helping his daughter through her rise while still being the best dad he can be (29:00). Hosts: Vince Carter, Annie Finberg Guests: Coco Gauff, Corey Gauff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Wing It Podcast.
0:02.0	Podcast.
0:07.0	Hello and welcome into Winging It, part of the Ringer Podcast network.
0:10.0	I'm your host Annie Finberg as always joined by Mr Vince Carter.
0:13.0	V. C's in the house.
0:14.4	And today we are very excited because we are joined by teenage phenom tennis player
0:18.7	extraordinary cocoa golf.
0:20.4	Hello.
0:21.4	How are you?
0:21.9	I'm good and you.
0:23.0	How was that intro?
0:24.0	I didn't include all your accolades, but I feel like teenage phenom is like a great great.
0:28.0	Great intro.
0:29.0	Yeah.
0:30.0	Summs it up. For anyone wondering the other old head in the room, with all due respect, is Coco's dad,
0:35.0	Corey Gough, who goes all the way back with Vince, how long?
0:38.8	Three and a half, four years.
0:40.1	Our daughters were training together out here in Boca and she was putting my daughter to the
0:47.0	Ringer.
0:48.0	Was she? Teaching the ropes and she got so much better.
0:51.0	It was a great move. I think you spoke with her mom to get her to come down and she asked me, I was like, yeah, let's do it.
1:00.0	And how are you? How's Florida Florida how's tennis?
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