Serena Williams PREDICTS Coco Gauff Beats Pegula — And Explains Why

#cincinnati #serenawilliams #cocogauff Six of the top eight seeds are out of Cincinnati. Sabalenka, Rybakina, and defending champion Iga Swiatek are all gone. What's left is an all-American final between Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula — two players who practise together, eight days before the US Open. Serena Williams makes her pick and lays out five reasons for it. She explains why the higher Cincinnati bounce quietly disadvantages a player whose game is built on taking the ball early, why Pegula's harder route through Anisimova and Swiatek costs more than the scoreline shows, and why already having won a Grand Slam changes what a player's arm does at four-all in a second set. She describes what happens tactically when two players know each other's patterns completely — and why that cancellation favours the one who improvises. She also names the one thing that would make her wrong, gives an explicit probability rather than pretending to certainty, and makes a counterintuitive argument about why winning this final in three sets could be worse for Gauff's US Open than losing in two. The statement closes with what six fallen seeds in one tournament actually means for the draw that comes out this week. 🎾 ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 — Six Of The Top Eight Are Gone 1:15 — Reason One: The Bounce Nobody Discusses 2:30 — Reason Two: Who Spent Less Time On Court 3:45 — The Return Games Decide This 5:00 — Reason Three: One Of Them Has Already Won A Major 6:15 — Reason Four: They Know Each Other Too Well 7:30 — I Played My Sister In Four Slam Finals 8:45 — The Forehand Change Nobody Has Noticed 10:00 — The One Thing That Makes Me Wrong 11:15 — Sixty Forty. Here's Where I Land. The final two minutes are the reason to watch this one. Subscribe for more from women's tennis. 🔔 Gauff or Pegula — and does it change anything for New York? Tell me below.