“I like Cinema Sessions,” Coco Gauff says as she settles onto our now-famous couch. “But I’m a bit disappointed I hadn’t been asked to be on earlier.”
The eventual quarterfinalist at this year’s Australian Open breaks into a coy smile as she grabs her couch-side popcorn, with vision of her AO debut – against Venus Williams – beaming onto the big screen.
“Honestly, I was confident that I could beat her in this match,” Gauff reflected as the highlights of her 16-year-old self eventually notching a straight-set victory played in front of us. “I had to fight to win it.”
It’s the second year of Cinema Sessions, a concept developed by the Tennis…