Coco Gauff admits she is disappointed in herself when it comes to her serving display in Montreal but also adds she is happy with the fact that so far she has managed to find ways to win ugly.
In the Montreal third round, the American - who is seeded at No. 1 in the absence of Aryna Sabalenka - sprayed 14 double faults against Veronika Kudermetova and she was down by a set and a break at one point. With her back turned against the wall and her serve not working, the two-time Grand Slam champion pulled off a big second-set comeback - gradually improved her serve as the match went on - and avoided a shock loss by beating world No. 42 Kudermetova 4-6 7-5 6-2.
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Gauff, who had a first-round bye, also double-faulted 23 times during her opening Montreal win over Danielle Collins - that makes it 37 double faults across two matches played at the Canadian Open.
Gauff: I'm disappointed in myself when it comes to the serve part
"Yeah, I mean, there's positives and there's negatives. Obviously, I am so disappointed in myself when it comes to that part of the game just because I didn't play DC to work on that and made changes to that and doing well in practice and serving really well in practice. Yeah, so I just would like for it to transfer to the match. It does give positives that," the top seed said.
"'Okay, I'm winning these matches having literally like one part of my game on a crutch.' So it's like if I can stand on both feet, then I can only imagine that it would be a lot more straightforward and a lot more easier for me."
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Gauff plays next against rising Canadian star Victoria Mboko. They met three months ago in Rome for the first time and the American was tested by the world No. 85 before coming back to win 3-6 6-2 6-1.
Gauff is evidently not happy with how she has served so far in Montreal and she will definitely emphasize doing much better in that department against Mboko.
