Coco Gauff’s dad refusing to watch her Australian Open matches due to unusual superstition

Coco Gauff explained why her dad Corey wouldn’t attend her matches at the Australian Open.

Coco Gauff revealed that her dad doesn’t want to watch her Australian Open matches because he is “incredibly superstitious”. Coco

Corey Gauff has been noticeably absent from his daughter’s box during her run to the quarter-final this week and the world No. 4 confessed that he may never return.

Gauff continued her winning run on Sunday as she downed Magdalena Frech 6-1 6-2 to advance to the last eight at the Australian Open.

The 19-year-old is yet to lose a match this year, picking up the title in Auckland before coming to Melbourne Park.

Gauff is also on a streak when it comes to Grand Slam matches, as she won her first Major title at the US Open last year.

And her triumph in Flushing Meadows has now left her dad feeling so superstitious that he won’t watch one of Gauff’s matches from her player box.

The American explained that they had previously made an arrangement for her dad to follow along from outside of the arena because of his nerves – something he did during her US Open final, walking around the grounds while she played.

Jelena Dokic, who was conducting the on-court interview, noticed that Gauff’s dad was absent for her win against Frech.

“I know your dad at the US Open, he wasn’t in the box but he was always somewhere around. That was a new thing because he gets too nervous. Is he here?” she asked.

And the fourth seed had an explanation for his absence. “My dad is here. I don’t know where.

But he’s here somewhere. My mum does better at holding her nerves in the box,” she said. “Sometimes my dad says some words that I can’t say right here. And then I hear them and I get mad.

“We agreed he can go say them somewhere else around here. If you guys see him tell him I said hello.

” But it wasn’t just her dad’s nerves that meant he couldn’t watch on from the stands, as he had also grown superstitious following her triumph in New York. Djokic added:

“But it’s also now a superstition because you won the US Open when he was ‘kind of’ around somewhere. It’s got to now stay like that right?”

Gauff admitted she was right, though it wasn’t her doing. The 19-year-old replied:

“I’m not superstitious at all, he’s incredibly superstitious. Wimbledon was probably the last time I’ll ever see him in my box.

I don’t think he’s ever coming back.” After the match, Gauff also explained how her team dynamic had changed in recent months, with her dad taking a backseat.

The American was just 15 years old when she burst onto the scene at Wimbledon in 2019 but took the reigns of ‘Team Coco’ as she got older.

“As each season goes, I’ve definitely been more vocal about what I want on and off the court. Yeah, at first, like 15, 16, my parents were doing a lot of it for me just so I could focus on tennis.

Now moving into more of the role. I’m getting older, having to make more decisions, all of that, on and off court,” she explained.