Tennis superstar Coco Gauff serves New Orleans in Paris as Olympic flag bearer

NEW ORLEANS ( WGNO ) — She is the one.

Tennis sensation Coco Gauff will carry the American flag at the Olympics.

She’ll be the flag bearer, along with LeBron James, at the opening ceremony Friday, July 26.

Once upon a team, a Thanksgiving, Gauff came to New Orleans.

She was fifteen then and WGNO Good Morning New Orleans features reporter Bill Wood was on the tennis court with her.

Here’s how it happened in 2019 .

If you wonder how and where, then 15-year-old tennis phenom Gauff spends her holidays, it just so happens to be right here in New Orleans.

Gauff’s got family here which is how WGNO News with a Twist features guy Wild Bill Wood managed to bump into the superstar.

Gauff has been on the tennis court at Tulane University and her coach is not giving her much of a holiday break.

Gauff’s coach is her dad, Corey.

He’s from New Orleans. He’s the man who gives his daughter the kind of advice it takes to be a tennis superstar and one of the best in the world.

She’s been playing since she was six. Inspired to play the sport by Serena and Venus Williams.

And when Gauff beat Venus Williams in Wimbledon in the summer of 2019, the world was watching.

She’s just 15. She says she wants to be the greatest of all time.

Looks like Gauff’s got plenty of time to make that happen.

And even more.

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