Wimbledon 2025: Coco Gauff is just 21 but already thinking about what to do after tennis

LONDON (AP) — To be clear, Coco Gauff didn’t bring up the word “star” during a recent interview with The Associated Press; the reporter did. So as Gauff began to answer a question about balancing her life as a professional athlete with her off-court interests, she caught herself repeating that term.

“I definitely didn’t know how it would look like,” she began with a smile, “before I got to be, I guess, a star — feels weird to call myself that — but I definitely did want to expand outside of tennis.