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Coco Gauff has used the same racket maker throughout her career, although she has changed frame a few times.
Gauff has always used HEAD rackets and currently uses a pro stock racket designated PT339.2.
She has used both the 16×19 and 18×20 string patterns available in her particular frame.
Her racket setup equates to the PT57A2 graphite layup in the retail Graphene 360/360+/Auxetic Speed mold.
Her choice of racket is one known for doing just about everything well which suits her game down to the ground.
Financial experts Forbes reported that Gauff was already making $1 million a year from endorsement deals as a 15-year-old.
In 2023, Coco Gauff’s net worth has been estimated at more than $25 million.
She enjoys lucrative partnerships with shoe company New Balance, racket and tennis equipment experts Head as well as Barilla Foods and Microsoft.
Her relationship with New Balance is an interesting one with Gauff inspiring the launch of an entire division within the company making tennis shoes for kids.
Given her well-established relationship with sponsors Gauff could unlock substantial bonus payments by winning her first Grand Slam or rising further up the rankings.
She agreed an extension to her deal with New Balance at the end of the 2022 season, and is the top tennis player on the sports shoe company’s roster of sponsored athletes.
At the time she said: “New Balance has supported me since my junior tennis years and has been by my side for the biggest moments of my career. The team feels like family, so it was an easy decision to extend with a team that has embraced me as a person and genuinely works to help bring out my best.”
Gauff won her first career singles title in Linz in 2019 but had to wait for 2023 for her true breakout campaign.
Her career to date has seen her bag more than $12 million in prize money but unsurprisngly for one so young she still ‘lives’ at home with her parents, although she is now on the road for much of the year.
Despite her youth she feels that she is settling into life on the WTA Tour even if she acknowledges that she has a lot to learn.
Guaff told WTA insider: “I feel on the game and inexperience-wise, I’m still on the younger end compared to some other players.
“But I guess in the vibe, just walking around, I don’t feel like the new kid on the block anymore.”
Gauff has not been afraid to use her platform to speak out for causes she believes in.
She is an outspoken advocate against the censorship of history books that tell the story of slavery and the struggles of the African-American people.
“I feel like adults have a little construct as they get older and think kids can’t handle certain information,” Gauff said.
“But you have to remember they have a clean slate and they’re looking at things. What we teach them can kind of help shape who they are going to be in the future.
“If we want to have good morals and hopefully a better history in the future, I think we have to teach even the dark parts of it, in an age-appropriate way of course.”
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