Coco Gauff: ‘I don’t think people should be dying in the streets just for existing’

Coco Gauff: ‘When you’re from any country, you don’t have to represent the entire values of what’s going on in the leadership’. Photograph: Robert Prange/Getty Images

While getting treatment and preparing for this week’s Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, Coco Gauff has had the news on in the background almost every day.

Gauff could be forgiven if she’s not up-to-date on everything that’s been happening back in the United States: she is on the road for nearly 11 months a year, often thousands of miles away from her home in Delray Beach, Florida.