Vid: Gauff cruises to Citi Open main draw

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Once she got into the qualifying, few had much doubt that 15-year-old Coco Gauff would make it through two matches in a draw that, let’s be honest, was very doable.

And she did. Gauff routined Hiroko Kuwata of Japan 6-1, 6-2 in 64 minutes Sunday to advance to the Citi Open main draw.

Her first-round opponent will be Zarina Diyas of Kazakhstan.

But first, she’ll play doubles with Caty McNally Monday.

If she can get through the Diyas match, she would face the winner of the match between No. 5 seed Lesia Tsurenko and Yafan Wang of China.

You would also expect her, as she did for both her qualifying matches, to be put on the stadium court. We’ll see how that works out.

Monday would have been a relatively easy scheduling job. But as the week goes on, there are a lot of seeds to place. And with the men’s event being an ATP 500, they tend to get priority over the WTA, for which it is a lowest-level International event.

However, Coco Mania shows no signs of slowing down. It undoubtedly might not sit that well with some of the players. Which is not Gauff’s problem.

Here’s what the teenager said in her second press conference in two days.