NEW YORK: There's a video of Coco Gauff singing Carly Rae Jepsen's 'call me maybe' doing the rounds on social media. She's eight and bouncing about the stands on Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Not a care in the world. On a sunless Saturday in New York, when the 19-year-old, the weight of expectations on her shoulder, fell on her back sobbing after clinching the US Open title, the first American teenager since Serena Williams in 1999, life had come full circle. Only so much as those intervening years, dark days of doubts, was the making of Gauff.
