Coco Gauff appreciates the art of doing nothing, or as the kids call it today — rotting the bed.
The 20-year-old tennis player told PEOPLE at the launch of her collaboration with American Eagle that she relaxes by doing “nothing” when she’s not competing in tournaments around the world.
Of “those days” when you just need to shut down and reset, Gauff says, “I literally love doing nothing.”
“Like after the Olympics,” shares the tennis player, who says she spent the two days after the 2024 Paris Games at home with her younger brother, 11-year-old Cameron.
“On Sunday, we literally stayed at home and did nothing. We just watched Island of love together,” Gauff says, quickly adding, “What, I don’t know if I should watch Island of love with my 11-year-old brother, but he has older siblings, so I feel like it kind of works out that way.”
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Coco Gauff attends as Coco Gauff celebrates her collaboration with American Eagle at an intimate dinner with Lola.
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Questionable content aside, Gauff says her break from doing “nothing” with Cameron “just felt like a reboot” as she prepares for her first match at the 2024 US Open, against France’s Varvara Gracheva on Monday 26. August in New York.
“Sometimes I feel like even taking care of myself can seem like too much work,” she explains. “I just want to just do nothing and just sit and just rot, literally. So those were the best days, honestly, especially when you were busy, and it was nice to have someone to do that with.”
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And the tennis star has a strong eye on the final season Island of love. Gauff says she “liked” Kaylor — but admitted she “cried a lot,” — and even though she knows “a lot of people don’t like the Case girls,” (where dedicated contestants are tempted with a new batch of bombshells). Gauff says, “I mean, it’s kind of crap to go to a show like that, but I feel like they handled it really well.”
For her collaboration with American Eagle, Gauff designed an exclusive oversized jacket with the words “Thank you to the people who didn’t believe in me.”
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Coco Gauff attends as Coco Gauff celebrates its collaboration with American Eagle at an intimate dinner with Lola Tong, Olivia Ponton and more at Nine Orchard on August 21, 2024 in New York City.
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Celebrating the new collaboration, Gauff told attendees at her release party that the saying was “something that I feel like a lot of people can relate to, especially people at this table who have seen all the internet trolls or most people in their workplace don’t believes in them.”
Gauff said that sometimes he will “read things on purpose to just like it, fuel it” and “use it as motivation” to prove skeptics wrong.
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