Coco Gauff’s chances of winning the Australian Open in 2025 rated by Rennae Stubbs as her ‘biggest issue’ is pointed out

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Coco Gauff is seemingly on her way back to the top of her game, having struggled for consistency throughout 2024.

Gauff burst onto the scene at Wimbledon aged 15, with the teenager overcoming Venus Williams at the All England Club.

Since then, Gauff has gone on to win a Grand Slam title at the 2023 US Open, before clinching the WTA Finals title this season.

Gauff is already back in training despite lifting that trophy less than a month ago, with Australian Open success likely her main focus at this moment in time.

The 20-year-old reached the semi-finals in Melbourne last time out, with Gauff then reaching the same stage at the French Open.

Rennae Stubbs points out Coco Gauff’s ‘biggest issue’

Fourth round exits were then suffered at Wimbledon and the US Open, with the American undoubtedly eager to start her 2025 Grand Slam season off with a bang.

According to Rennae Stubbs, that is certainly a possibility, but she believes one area of Gauff’s game still needs work.

“It will be interesting to see how going out of indoors – because we know playing indoors helps your serve,” she said on The Rennae Stubbs Tennis Podcast. “I want to see how she can handle that going outdoors, with the sun and elements etc because I think if she can get a more consistent kick serve that would be huge.

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“That would take perfect timing right now to work on that. That’s all she needs to work on, the serve. The forehand is getting better, that will be okay. Her biggest issue is the serve, if she is double-faulting she is hurting herself big time. I think she is a real threat at the Australian Open if that is under control.”

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Much has been made of Gauff’s serving struggles despite her very brief and very successful career so far.

The 20-year-old already has nine WTA Tour-level titles to her name, with Gauff having gone three for three in 2024 finals.

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She won in Auckland and Beijing before her WTA Finals success in Riyadh, where the American beat the two top players in the world in Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek.

Gauff will, however, now want to push on in 2025, with a rise in the standings perhaps among her main goals.

She reached a career-high ranking of number two this summer, but Gauff finished the year as WTA number three.

With an 8-0 tour-level hard-court final record, Gauff really is a specialist on the surface, with the American definitely the player most capable of knocking fellow hard-court star Sabalenka off her perch in Australia next month.