Coco Gauff on her Oura Ring, US Open Hopes, and Her Love Island Ideas

This month, Coco Gauff is in a very good headspace. When speaking in regards to the upcoming US Open, the two-time Grand Slam singles champion displays on final 12 months, which she says was “a very stressful tournament.” Gauff was within the course of of adjusting how she serves whereas competing, which simply took a toll mentally. “I didn’t really get to enjoy [last year’s US Open] that much,” she says over Zoom. “This time around, I feel more comfortable in my game. So I’m hoping that I can have more fun.”

In an period the place optimization is the obsession, Gauff says she’s taking a way more relaxed method to her stats. It’s with that grounded and current perspective that made a partnership with good ring model Oura a pure match. Today, she joins fellow American tennis participant Taylor Fritz because the model’s latest ambassadors, with campaigns highlighting their journeys on-and-off the courtroom and Gauff showcasing her love of studying and household legacy as a part of her evolution.

Gauff began utilizing an Oura ring a 12 months in the past, earlier than this chance got here into fruition, one thing she would possibly’ve unknowingly manifested. “It’s funny because I lost [my Oura ring] around the same time the conversation of partnering up started,” she says. “I was using it a lot. I think it’s just so good to track what I have going on.”

Now she’s upgraded to the newer, sleeker, and thinner Oura Ring 5, a hoop that she doesn’t put on throughout matches (“I’ve been thinking about it,” she concedes), and primarily makes use of it to trace her REM and the way a lot deep sleep she’s getting recurrently. She tries to get across the identical quantity of hours of sleep every evening, however doesn’t have a tough quantity that she sticks to. She simply pays consideration to when she isn’t feeling as well-rested as she’d like. “I feel like you can get a little crazy trying to make your score go up,” she says. “Sometimes you’re playing a tournament and you’re not going to be able to catch up on your rest because the schedule unfortunately doesn’t allow it. So it’s just finding the balance.”

She’s additionally studying to take heed to her physique extra. While coaching onerous was the primary focus when she was youthful, the 22-year-old is making relaxation extra of a precedence for the sake of her bodily and psychological well being. “Numbers don’t lie. So you can be like, ‘Oh, I want to train more.’ And it’s like, wait, but your body doesn’t actually need that. So maybe you should listen to that instead of listening to the false rhetoric that the more you train, the better you are. Which yes, but also rest is even more important.”

Gauff simply beat Belinda Bencic on the 2026 Canadian Open to advance to the semi-finals and is concentrated on the subsequent match. But as for the way she decompresses outdoors of tennis, she’s an enormous film lover, lately seeing The Odyssey and raving about Spider-Man: Brand New Day. “I thought it was Tom [Holland]’s best one,” she says. “Acting and everything-wise.” And just like the lots, she is all the time tapped in on Love Island US. “I voted for Brinity to win.”

Gauff additionally likes actions that stimulate the thoughts. She truly spent the day earlier than the beginning of the Canadian Open final week at an Escape Room together with her household. “It was pretty easy, honestly,” she says. “It was a haunted mummy theme, but I had to choose an easy room because I was with my family.” I then inform her about Escape Rooms that double as actual haunted homes, the place one indicators a waiver giving employees okay to work together and distract you whilst you attempt to escape. “I’m not that intense,” she laughs. “But honestly, it does intrigue my interest.” Should she resolve to do these ones, she says she’ll publish it on-line for all of us to comply with alongside.