Coco Gauff Trivia
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49 free Coco Gauff trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Coco Gauff was eight when a Little Mo tournament convinced her to play tennis for life, ten when she walked into Patrick Mouratoglou's academy promising to be number one, and fifteen when she qualified for Wimbledon and beat Venus Williams on her first day. Since then she has won the US Open as a teenager, the WTA Finals, the French Open in singles and doubles, and reached No. 1 in doubles with Jessica Pegula. This quiz follows the whole climb: the Delray Beach public courts later stamped on her shoes, the junior finals against Anisimova and McNally, the Linz lucky-loser title, the Osaka upset in Melbourne, the COVID withdrawal from Tokyo and the flag in Paris, the Brad Gilbert year, the Sabalenka and Świątek rivalries, the nine straight hardcourt finals and the 2026 season's Miami final and Wimbledon semi. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a sports quiz night.
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Q 01What is Coco Gauff's given first name?
Cori
Cori is her given name, after her father Corey, and it was the name the newspapers used when she broke through at 15. Coco is the nickname that stuck.
Q 02In which Florida city did Gauff grow up and learn her tennis?
Delray Beach
Delray Beach was her parents' home town. She took up tennis at six, and a year later the family moved back from Atlanta so that she could train properly.
Q 03Gauff's father Corey played which sport in college?
Basketball
Basketball made Corey a college point guard, and her mother ran track at Florida State. Tennis still became the family business, with him as her coach.
Q 04At age 10 Gauff began training at the academy of which famous coach?
Patrick Mouratoglou
Patrick Mouratoglou's Champ'Seed foundation, set up for gifted juniors who could not afford top-level coaching, helped pay for her trips to his academy near Nice.
Q 05Aged 12, Gauff told an interviewer she wanted to be what?
The greatest of all time
The greatest of all time was still her stated aim after her breakthrough at 15. Her father, she said, had told her at eight that she could do it.
Q 06Gauff, 13, lost the 2017 US Open girls' final to which fellow American?
Amanda Anisimova
Amanda Anisimova, then 16, won 6-0, 6-2 over the youngest girls' finalist the event had seen. Gauff won their first meeting as professionals four years later.
Q 07Gauff won the 2018 French Open girls' title by beating which player, later her doubles partner?
Caty McNally
Caty McNally took the first set 6-1 before Gauff won in a final-set tiebreak. A year later the two friends were winning WTA doubles titles together.
Q 08How did Gauff, ranked outside the top 300, enter 2019 Wimbledon qualifying?
A wild card
A wild card from the organisers got her in. The night before her last qualifying match she sat a science test for school, then won 6-1, 6-1.
Q 09Which five-time Wimbledon champion did Gauff beat in her 2019 main-draw debut?
Venus Williams
Venus Williams, 39, was the oldest woman in the draw and Gauff the youngest. At the net the 15-year-old thanked her idol for everything she had done for the sport.
Q 10Who ended Gauff's 2019 Wimbledon run in the fourth round?
Simona Halep
Simona Halep won 6-3, 6-3 and went on to take the title. Gauff had won six matches in a row to get that far, three of them in qualifying.
Q 11Gauff's first WTA singles title came in 2019 at which Austrian event she entered as a lucky loser?
Linz Open
Linz Open qualifying beat her, but she got in as a lucky loser when another player withdrew. Her father told her she couldn't lose twice in the same tournament, and at 15 she won the title.
Q 12At 14, Gauff signed with Team8, the management agency co-founded by which tennis great?
Roger Federer
Roger Federer set up Team8 with his agent Tony Godsick. Gauff stayed until April 2025, when she left to launch her own management firm, Coco Gauff Enterprises.
Q 13Which defending champion did Gauff upset in the third round of the 2020 Australian Open?
Naomi Osaka
Q 21Gauff won the 2024 French Open doubles title alongside which Czech player?
Kateřina Siniaková
Kateřina Siniaková went looking for a partner two days before the tournament, and Gauff, who had not planned to play doubles, said yes. They won the title in their first event as a team.
Q 22Gauff carried the US flag at the Paris 2024 opening ceremony alongside which athlete?
LeBron James
LeBron James and Gauff were voted in by their fellow Team USA athletes. At 20 she became the youngest American ever to carry the flag at an opening ceremony.
Q 23Whom did Gauff beat in the final to win the 2024 WTA Finals in Riyadh?
Zheng Qinwen
Naomi Osaka had beaten her at the US Open five months earlier, then asked the tearful 15-year-old to share the winner's on-court interview. In Melbourne Gauff won 6-3, 6-4.
Q 14Why did Gauff withdraw from the Tokyo Olympics in 2021?
She tested positive for COVID-19
She tested positive for COVID-19 shortly before the Games and missed her Olympic debut at 17. Three years later Team USA's athletes voted her a flag bearer in Paris.
Q 15Gauff's Parma 2021 singles-and-doubles sweep was the youngest since which player in 2004?
Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova did it at 17 in Birmingham, 92 days after Gauff was born. Gauff, also 17, won her Parma singles final and then the doubles final on the same day.
Q 16Who beat Gauff in the 2022 French Open final, her first major final?
Iga Świątek
Iga Świątek won 6-1, 6-3 for her 35th victory in a row. Gauff, 18, was the youngest finalist in Paris since 2001, and three years later she came back and won the title.
Q 17With which partner did Gauff first reach the doubles No. 1 ranking in 2022?
Jessica Pegula
Jessica Pegula and Gauff won the Toronto final in a match tiebreak, their second big title of 2022. It made Gauff, 18, the doubles No. 1, and only Martina Hingis had got there younger.
Q 18What halted Gauff's 2023 US Open semifinal for about 50 minutes?
A climate protest
A climate protest stopped play when a man glued his bare feet to the stadium floor. Gauff said afterwards she could not get upset with protesters who made their point peacefully.
Q 19Gauff's first WTA 1000 title came weeks before her first major, at which 2023 event?
Cincinnati
Cincinnati brought her first win over the world No. 1, in the semifinal, after seven straight defeats by the same player. A day later she won the biggest title of her career so far.
Q 20Which coach, known for working with Andre Agassi, guided Gauff from July 2023 to September 2024?
Brad Gilbert
Brad Gilbert joined as co-coach after her first-round Wimbledon exit in 2023. By mid-September she had won three titles, the last of them her first major.
Zheng Qinwen served for the title at 5-4 in the third set, but Gauff broke back and won the deciding tiebreak after three hours.
Q 24Gauff's 2025 French Open title was the first there by an American since whom?
Serena Williams
Serena Williams won her third Paris title in 2015. Gauff, the beaten finalist there three years earlier, ended the ten-year wait by beating the world No. 1 on a gusty afternoon.
Q 25In 2025 Gauff became the youngest woman to reach which three clay finals in one year?
Madrid, Rome, Paris
Madrid, Rome, Paris: she lost the first two finals in straight sets, then won the third and biggest of them a few weeks later.
Q 26How did Gauff win every match at Wuhan in 2025?
In straight sets
In straight sets every time, final included. She told her beaten friend, the week's 'three-set queen', that she had been determined not to let it reach a third set.
Q 27Which racket brand did Gauff play with when she won the 2023 US Open?
Head
Head signed her to a long-term deal at the end of 2018, when she was 14 and had not yet played a tour-level match. Five years later the bet paid off in New York.
Q 28Gauff's first sponsorship contract, signed in October 2018, was with which brand?
New Balance
New Balance built a 'Call Me Coco' campaign around her after Wimbledon in 2019. When she won the 2023 US Open it brought the line back as 'Call Me Champion'.
Q 29Which Italian pasta maker signed Gauff to a sponsorship deal in 2019?
Barilla
Barilla announced the deal on the day she made her tour debut in Miami, a week after her 15th birthday and before she had won a single WTA match.
Q 30The coordinates printed on Gauff's first signature shoe point to what?
Her childhood park courts
Her childhood park courts are marked on one shoe of her first signature pair. The other carries her father's line: You can change the world with your racket.