Coco Gauff Defends Her Glam Game At The US Open

Coco Gauff is standing as much as critics who name her out for caring about her on-court type.

The 21-year-old opened up about her concentrate on vogue for match day, defending her choice to get glam for the US Open and different main tennis matches.

“I plan my outfits for tournaments properly prematurely simply because I prefer to know what I’m carrying,” Gauff revealed in a Vogue Magnificence Secrets and techniques video, including that she’s going to get her nails carried out “to match the outfit” she’s set to put on within the 2025 US Open.

Whereas the two-time Grand Slam champion famous that it’s “very uncommon” when “all of the three issues [hair, nails, and outfit] are carried out,” she mentioned she tries to “ensure” that the trifecta is full particularly for Grand Slams.

“I don’t know why it’s such an enormous deal what girls select to do with their on-court or off-court seems,” she says within the video, stating that she usually will get known as out for spending “extra time” on her outfits than the court docket.

“And I’m like, ‘I’m a human. Tennis is what I do, however it’s not who I’m’,” she boasts, “‘And I like to precise my approach similar to every other individual likes to precise themselves’.”

The star continued: “For me, that’s simply exhibiting up on court docket being one of the best model of myself. However I undoubtedly suppose if girls need to do this, they need to be celebrated and never persecuted for it.”

Forward of the 2024 US Open, Gauff revealed to PEOPLE that she plans her Grand Slam outfits as much as “two years… perhaps typically longer prematurely.” Regardless of all the planning, nonetheless, the ultimate seems for giant tournaments, just like the Australian Open and Wimbledon, aren’t “set in stone till the large day.”

The 2025 US Open kicked off on Aug. 24 and can conclude on Sept. 7, going down on the USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Heart in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, N.Y.