'I'll remember my racquets for next time' - Gauff jokes after overcoming racquet blunder to win - video Dailymotion

Coco Gauff says forgetting her racquets helped her relax to a secure a first round win at the French Open

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00:00Yeah, well the most important thing is to play with the racket

00:04So I was getting through the first first step and then after that

00:08Maybe it probably relaxed me going into the match because it's just such a funny thing

00:14Yeah, so I'm just happy to get through today and I'll remember my rackets for next time

00:18Usually I'm very nervous and I was a little bit today, but I think it was just the least nervous

00:23I've been heading into a first round of a Grand Slam and then the whole racket situation

00:28I think just took a load off too. So

00:31Yeah, I think

00:33Yeah, I wasn't nervous today was I knew the conditions were going to be difficult

00:36So it's kind of one of those matches I went into knowing it wasn't going to be pretty tennis all the time

00:42So I think it just with that mindset going in it just makes you feel better

00:46Necessarily when you aren't winning the points the way you kind of want to