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How teenager Coco Gauff conquered the US Open for Grand Slam title at age 19

US Open champion Coco Gauff.[Twitter,Coco Gauff]

Coco Gauff is still a teenager, after all, and so it should surprise no one that she was on her phone in the locker room, scrolling through social media, right up until 10 minutes before heading out on court for the U.S. Open final.

What the 19-year-old from Florida was reading, she would say later, were various comments, negative ones, "saying I wasn't going to win today; that just put the fire in me."

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