US Open director, Stacey Allaster hails Coco Gauff as Special Talent

American tennis is in good hands with Coco Gauff, US Open event director Stacey Allaster has told Reuters as the attractive teen looks to end her advance time on a high.

Gauff mounted a fierce comeback to beat Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka in the US Open final, claiming her first Grand Slam title and her place in American tennis royalty.

The triumph came amid a 16- match winning band for Gauff that ended in the China Open semi-final last month at the hands of old foe Iga Swiatek of Poland.

The coming generation has arrived and stood on the shoulders of the great Serena Williams and Venus Williams," said Allaster, the principal superintendent, Professional Tennis, with the USTA.

It feels like she's been around for a long time. She's only 19. She's special. She's humble and kind, she's hardworking." And she's veritably, veritably focused on winning.

Gauff proved as witching to suckers as the icons who inspired her growing up as3.4 million observers tuned in for the US Open final on ESPN, making it the most- watched major women's crown ever on the network.

The moment was made all the sweeter for Allaster, the former WTA head who won the Women's Sports Foundation's Billie Jean King Leadership Award this time after the US Open celebrated its 50th anniversary of gender-equal prize money.

It's a corner that has yet to be replicated across all of tennis as the WTA blazoned before this time a" pathway to handing out equal prize plutocrat" at combined WTA 1000 and 500 events, starting from 2027.

It's clearly a evidence point of the value of women's sport, of women's tennis, when the suckers are showing up in the colosseums and loving it," she said." And also we know the suckers are showing up and consuming on ESPN and around the world.

World number three Gauff will next contend in the WTA Tests in Cancun, with the season- ending event remonstrating of the group stage on Sunday." I'm looking forward to seeing how Coco performs with, you know, a lesser limelight on her. She's had a limelight on her for a long time.

This is a marathon. It's not a sprint," said Allaster." We've seen her adaptability."