'Stay true to yourself': Coco Gauff provides advice to wildcard French Open semi finalist Lois Boisson

World no. 2 Coco Gauff has heaped praise on her semi final opponent after defeating the French wildcard Lois Boisson 6-1, 6-2, to reach the semi final at Roland Garros. Coming in to the French Open as a wildcard, Boisson has enjoyed a fairytale raid to the semi finals where she ultimately crashed out against a dominant Gauff. After reaching her Second French Open final when she took down Boisson on the 5th of June, Gauff has provided some crucial advice for the French up and comer going forward to the next couple of months.

Gauff, who is already incredibly experienced for just 21 years old had her first Grand Slam experience at just 15 years old when she reached the Fourth round of Wimbledon in 2019 before ultimately losing out to eventual Champion Simona Halep 6-3, 6-3. The now World no. Two ranked player would then win her first Grand Slam title in 2023 at the US Open against Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-3, 6-2.

After the semi final bout Gauff was asked if she had any advice for the French newcomer Boisson to which she responded "Yeah, I think her position is especially harder because I think in the French there's not a lot of players that have made this result in the recent years. So I think the whole country is going to be looking at everything".

Gauff would further go on to explain more about what Boisson needs to do moving forward "I guess my biggest advice is just to stay true to yourself and the things that people, you know, keep your people around you, what they expect from you, not what media expects from you or other outside analysts expect for you”.