{"id":362516,"date":"2024-01-25T01:35:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T02:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=362516"},"modified":"2024-01-25T04:02:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T04:02:47","slug":"gauffs-savage-reply-to-opponents-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=362516","title":{"rendered":"Gauff's savage reply to opponent's husband"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coco Gauff<\/a> will take on Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> on Thursday night for a chance to be in the final at Melbourne Park<\/a> after taking care of Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk.<\/p>\n

After the tight quarter-final clash,\ufeff the 19-year-old American star clapped back at the husband of her opponent, Kostyuk, who seemingly tried to troll Gauff from the stands.<\/p>\n

Kostyuk's husband, Heorhii, was seen courtside wearing a cap that said "shake your cocos" with an image of a coconut broken in half.<\/p>\n

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It appears Gauff took it as a dig at her first name and after her win, Gauff posted an Instagram Story captioned "shakey shake" with a heart and laughing face emojis, accompanied by footage of her taking out match point and celebrating her victory.<\/p>\n

No reference to the cap was made in Gauff's press conference, although she did claim she's beaten Kostyuk without needing to play her best.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"It was definitely a C-game," Gauff said. "Didn't play my best tennis but really proud that I was able to get through. Hopefully got the bad match out of the way and I can play even better.<\/p>\n

"I knew going in, playing her, it was (going to be) a tough match. She's pretty athletic, and we kind of play similar. Today she was just more offensive, which I wish I was taking the offense from the beginning.<\/p>\n

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"I was just missing everything on both wings and not serving well. I was just trying to win one extra game. That was really the one thing. I was just, like, let me make it competitive.<\/p>\n

"Obviously sometimes when you're down 5-1 you're not expecting to win the set. I believe every point, every game matters, and eventually the score started to get closer."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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