Q 01/05

What is Coco Gauff's given first name?

A) Corinne

B) Cori

C) Coretta

D) Cordelia

Answer · why

B) 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 02/05

In which Florida city did Gauff grow up and learn her tennis?

A) Boca Raton

B) Bradenton

C) Fort Lauderdale

D) Delray Beach

Answer · why

D) 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 proper...

Q 03/05

Gauff's father Corey played which sport in college?

A) Baseball

B) Basketball

C) American football

D) Track and field

Answer · why

B) 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 04/05

At age 10 Gauff began training at the academy of which famous coach?

A) Toni Nadal

B) Nick Bollettieri

C) Patrick Mouratoglou

D) Riccardo Piatti

Answer · why

C) 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 academ...

Q 05/05

Aged 12, Gauff told an interviewer she wanted to be what?

A) The youngest world No. 1

B) An Olympic gold medallist

C) The greatest of all time

D) A Wimbledon champion by 16

Answer · why

C) 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.