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Tennis: Cori “Coco” Gauff walks out of depression stronger and more focused

American tennis player Cori "Coco" Gauff. [Photo: Reuters]

Cori “Coco” Gauff launched herself to global stardom as a 15-year-old at Wimbledon a year ago, but she’s revealed that she considered abandoning her career in tennis as she struggled to cope with expectations on her young shoulders.

Gauff, now 16, admitted she ‘was really depressed for about a year’ and in a ‘dark mindset’ where she failed to see the positives in the career she was pursuing.

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