Coco Gauff’s time in the 2024 Summer Olympics has come to an end.
The American tennis star was eliminated in the mixed doubles quarterfinal with partner Taylor Fritz on Wednesday night after falling to Canadian duo Félix Auger-Aliassime and Gabriela Dabrowski, 7-6 (2), 3-6, 10-8.
It marks a disappointing end to the Summer Games for Gauff, who had served as one of the flag bearers during the opening ceremony last week and was hoping to head back to the United States with some newly earned hardware.
“At the end of the day, it’s over,” Gauff told reporters afterward. “I’ll try to take the positive out of it and do better next time.”
But things didn’t pan out that way, starting with the singles tournament, which Gauff was dispatched from Tuesday.
Wednesday was a particularly rough one, with the 20-year-old first falling in the women’s doubles tournament with partner Jessica Pegula to Czech pair Karolina Muchova and Linda Noskova, 2-6, 6-4, 10-5.
Gauff remained confident that if she played the way she did with Pegula, then she and Fritz would be in a good spot to knock off the Canadians in the mixed doubles.
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“If I play like what I did today [with Pegula],” Gauff said, per ESPN, “we have a good chance.”
However, that did not come to fruition.
“Obviously I thought I had a good chance in all three events,” Gauff said after her two Wednesday losses.
Gauff was eliminated from the singles tournament on Tuesday in a match that made headlines after she got into an argument with a chair ump during the third-round match with Donna Vekic.
The frustration boiled over to the point of Gauff being left in tears.
“There’s been multiple times this year where that’s happened to me — where I felt like I always have to be an advocate for myself on the court,” Gauff told reporters after the match.
“I felt that he called it before I hit, and I don’t think the ref disagreed,” she added. “I think he just thought it didn’t affect my swing, which I felt like it did.”
Gauff was making her Olympics debut this year after having to drop out of the games in 2021 due to testing positive for COVID-19.
The American won her first Grand Slam in September when she was victorious in the women’s singles tournament at the U.S. Open before she took home the doubles title at the French Open earlier this year.
