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Barty move pinched by emerging superstar

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Todd Woodbridge has applauded Coco Gauff's determination to marque doubles a precedence successful the aboriginal stages of her career, claiming that it could accelerate her travel to the satellite No.1 singles ranking.

Gauff, who burst onto the country arsenic a 15-year-old and is wide considered 1 of the astir apt players to inherit Serena Williams' crown, has entered the doubles gully astatine expansive slams consistently implicit the past 2 years, climbing to the No.1 ranking successful that subject connected the backmost of finals astatine the US Open and the French Open.

Playing with different singles star, Jessica Pegula, Gauff has made different heavy tally astatine a expansive slam this Australian Open, with the American brace squaring disconnected against Japan's Ena Shibahara and Shuko Aoyama successful Friday's semi final.

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"Two apical 10 singles players playing doubles, you've got to emotion that," Woodbridge told Wide World of Sports' The Morning Serve.

"And to maine watching Coco Gauff implicit the past 12 months go the fig 1 doubles subordinate successful the satellite is lone going to marque her, successful time, the fig 1 singles subordinate arsenic well."

Woodbridge is not successful favour of each singles players jumping crossed to the doubles format astatine expansive slams but said players who are inactive successful the aboriginal stages of their career, specified arsenic Gauff, 18, could lone payment owed to the skills required to succeed.

He added that Gauff whitethorn beryllium pursuing the blueprint acceptable by retired Australian prima Ash Barty, who was dominating women's tennis earlier she retired astatine 25, arsenic good arsenic Sam Stosur, who roseate to the No.1 doubles ranking and won doubles expansive slams astatine the French Open and US Open earlier achieving her top feat successful singles, a US Open rubric successful 2011 erstwhile she bushed premier Serena Williams successful the final.

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"It depends connected wherever they're astatine with their singles, wherever their bodies are at, but I emotion the information that immoderate of the younger ones are doing it due to the fact that it's astir gathering the accomplishment acceptable to go arsenic bully a subordinate arsenic you can," Woodbridge said.

"Ash Barty has astir apt done that to the mindset of a batch of the singles players due to the fact that she did that, mislaid successful a fewer finals with Casey Dellacqua [won the US Open with CoCo Vandeweghe successful 2018 - was ranked 5 successful the world], but past you besides spell backmost a small spot further than that to Sam Stosur, who won expansive slam titles earlier she won the US Open singles title, truthful it makes implicit sense, and the (men), much of them should beryllium doing it arsenic good successful my opinion."

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Earlier this week Wimbledon joined the different 3 expansive slams successful reducing men's doubles to a champion of 3 format, bringing an extremity the long-held contented of playing men's doubles implicit champion of five.

While Woodbridge wants to spot much young men's singles players transverse to doubles, helium lamented the All England Club's determination owed to marque a prestigious tourney much of a "lottery" for the doubles stars.

"It's disappointing. Look, I'm a spot of a traditionalist successful tennis, and peculiarly astir Wimbledon," Woodbridge said.

"It was astir apt inevitable that it was going to hap astatine immoderate constituent but I cognize that successful my vocation I was precise fortunate to triumph 9 of them. I don't deliberation I would person won 9 of them if it was champion of 3 due to the fact that it's much of a lottery.

"Having been connected our greeting amusement conscionable precocious with the Bryan brothers, they're successful agreeance with that due to the fact that it's 1 of those surfaces, grass, wherever you don't get a batch of breaks successful service and you request clip to make opportunity."

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Ultimately, according to Woodbridge, the thought that much singles stars from the men's gully would participate the doubles astatine Wimbledon owed to the alteration was flawed logic.

"I don't judge that that's going to marque immoderate quality and I deliberation it becomes much of a lottery wherever the champion teams don't get done necessarily," helium said.

"But, you know, it's Wimbledon and they bash a large occupation astatine moving their tournament, and I'm going to get successful and enactment them and we'll spot what happens erstwhile it stays successful that way."

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