Coco Gauff has recorded a fairly indifferent first three months of the 2026 WTA season by her own standards.
Gauff, ranked fourth in the world currently, has made just one semifinal this year, which she managed at the Dubai Tennis Championships.
Aside from that, the American exited the Australian Open in the quarterfinals and crashed out in the early stages of both the Qatar Open and the Indian Wells Open.
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Ahead of the US Open last year, Gauff appointed Gavin MacMillan, a biomechanics specialist hired to help her with her serving struggles.
Several months into the player-coach relationship, the serving struggles are still there, and now former US Open finalist Greg Rusedski has called for her to make a change.
Greg Rusedski tells Coco Gauff to make a coaching change
Speaking in an episode of ‘Off Court with Greg‘, Rusedski said: “For Coco, she brought in this service coach, and it doesn’t seem like it’s going better for her. It actually looks like it’s going worse.”
Rusedski then discussed the form of Iga Swiatek, who has also struggled to find form this season.
He said: “With Iga, her confidence is on the clay courts. When she lost to Sabalenka in the semifinals of the French, we thought, ‘Oh, no, this is gonna be a spiral backwards’.
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“But then she rebounded, won Wimbledon, and we thought Iga was back. She hasn’t found that formula quite yet, so I hope for her that she gets it back on the clay courts.
“With Coco, you almost feel like, let’s reset. I think she needs to make a change in her team and bring somebody new on.
“Change something because she competes so well, but she’s playing tennis with one arm tied behind her back, and she needs to make a change.”
Coco Gauff’s campaign at the 2026 Miami Open so far
Gauff is attempting to turn her season around at this year’s edition of the Miami Open, where she has picked up two wins so far.
The two-time major champion has had to come back from a set down in both her matches at the WTA 1000 tournament.
She beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto in round one and put in a convincing second and third set performance against Alycia Parks in the second round.
Her next opponent comes in the form of Sorana Cirstea, whom she has played just once before.
The two stars clashed in the second round of the 2020 Australian Open, and Gauff came out on top.
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