'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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00:00Yes Well, the most important thing is to play with the racket

00:04I was going through the first step

00:06And then after that

00:08Maybe it probably relaxed me going into the match

00:11Because it's just such a funny thing

00:14Yeah, so I was just happy to get through today

00:16And I remember my rackets for next time

00:18Usually, I'm very nervous

00:20I was a little bit today

00:21But I think it was just the least nervous I've been

00:24Heading into the first round of the Grand Slam

00:26And then the whole racket situation

00:28I think just took a load off too so yeah I think yeah I wasn't nervous today it was I knew the

00:35conditions were going to be difficult so it's kind of one of those matches I went into knowing

00:39it wasn't going to be pretty tennis all the time so I think it just with that mindset going in it

00:44just makes you feel better necessarily when you aren't winning the points the way you kind of want

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