Coco Gauff Focused On Serving Up Goods Under New Coach Matt Daly

Coco Gauff says her main focus is on improving her serve after adding Matt Daly to her coaching team ahead of the China Open. (More Tennis News)

Daly, who has previously coached former Wimbledon semi-finalist Denis Shapovalov, has linked up with Gauff and her longღ-term mentor Jean-Christophe Faurel, followinꦯg her split with Brad Gilbert earlier this month.

The world number six is gearing up for her first tournament since her US Open title defence ended at the hands of Emma Navarro in roun🐎d four 🅺;at Flushing Meadows.

Gauff, who ౠhit 19 double-faults during that defeat, has failed to progress beyond⛎ the last 16 in any of her last five events, having previously reached three successive semi-finals at the Italian Open, French Open and Berlin Open.

But the 20-year-old is looking forward to a frಞesh start, and is already seeing the benefit𒅌s of her work with Daly, ahead of facing Clara Burel in Beijing on Friday.

"There are other parts of my game that I want to work on, too, but the focus right now 🔯is the serve," she told the WTA Insideꦺr.

"When I serve wꦦell, I play pretty well. For me, that's the basis for my game. Already, the little bit we've done has made a drastic improvement to where I was three weeks ago.

"At this point, there's not a crazy amount, like going through a technique change or resetting ꦜeverythin♐g. It's just subtle things that, doing it for a week now, will help me.

"I'm super excit🃏ed about a new change and, hopefully, to improve other parts of my game. 

"Working with Brad was really great and, obviously, we had a great part🌺nership. It was just time to do a reset, a refresh and add some things in my game that I felt like I need to do to have a better season next year."