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href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/author\/richie-mills\" class=\"text-sm font-normal !text-author\"><br \/>\n                            Richie Mills                        <\/a><br \/>\n                        <time class=\"ml-3 text-sm font-normal text-info md:ml-4\" datetime=\"10 Jul 2026 1:32 PM\" data-ps-date=\"10 Jul 2026 1:32 PM\" data-ps-datetime=\"1783686766\"><br \/>\n                            10 Jul 2026 1:32 PM                        <\/time>\n                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"hidden justify-end space-x-4 text-xl sm:flex sm:!opacity-100\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tennis365.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mx-auto !my-0 hidden dark:block h-6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/content\/themes\/tennis365-sportsui\/img\/png\/preferred_source_badge_dark.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on 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!my-0\" src=\"https:\/\/d2me2qg8dfiw8u.cloudfront.net\/content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Gauff-Alcaraz-1320x742.jpg\" alt=\"Pictured: Coco Gauff looks dejected at Wimbledon, with Carlos Alcaraz (inset)\">                <\/figure><figcaption class=\"flex items-center space-x-3 border-b border-mobile-caption px-3 lg:border-caption\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"my-1.5 break-words !text-xs !text-content\">\n                                Coco Gauff looks dejected at Wimbledon, with Carlos Alcaraz (inset)                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\"><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Andy Roddick has come to the aid of Coco Gauff after she threw away a match point in her Wimbledon semi-final loss to Karolina Muchova.<\/p>\n<p>The American dropped the first set 6-2 on Centre Court, before rallying with a commanding 6-1 second set. The match reached a crescendo in the final set tiebreak, which involved both players spurning match point chances.<\/p>\n<p>The most memorable of those was when Gauff hit a powerful first serve at 9-8, and instead of blasting away a short forehand, the 22-year-old dumped a tame drop shot into the net.<\/p>\n<p>Muchova kept her cool, played the more attacking tennis, and got over the line to take the tiebreak 12-10 and advance to her first Wimbledon final, where she will face fellow Czech Linda Noskova.<\/p>\n<p>After the match, the two-time major winner had a glass-half-full attitude, perhaps because she was just a point away from a Wimbledon final and had previously never gone past the fourth round at SW19.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>More Wimbledon News<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/richest-tennis-players-family-net-worth-arthur-fery-vs-jessica-pegula-vs-emma-navarro\">Richest tennis players family net worth: Arthur Fery compared to Jessica Pegula and Emma Navarro<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/coco-gauffs-wimbledon-ranking-points-prize-money-revealed-karolina-muchova-loss\">Coco Gauff: What prize money and ranking points did American earn at Wimbledon?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more from Tennis365? Add us as<span>\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tennis365.com\" target=\"_blank\">a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/only-regret-every-word-coco-gauff-said-semi-final-wimbledon-heartbreak\">Gauff stressed that the drop shot had worked out for her well this fortnight<\/a>, so it may have been the right play, just the wrong execution. Now, former world No 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/andy-roddick\">Roddick<\/a> has defended the American.<\/p>\n<p>The former US Open champion said that Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s ability to hit masterful drop shots may have changed the narrative around when or when not to use that tactic and that even the all-time greats get nervous.<\/p>\n<p>He said on the latest episode of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IHir6OalmH4\" target=\"_blank\">Served<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019ve been thinking about this for two weeks. No one ever, ever, ever post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/carlos-alcaraz\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> calls a drop shot a bad decision anymore. Everyone is kind of fine with it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe win percentage of points where people hit a drop shot, Roland Garros vs Wimbledon. What do you think the differential is? 58% points won at Roland Garros, about 50% at Wimbledon. And yet the volume hasn\u2019t really changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a bad play on grass most of the time. And Coco has been hitting that shot; we\u2019ve been celebrating her variety this entire tournament. I don\u2019t know, sometimes you miss a shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was tight. Yeah, that\u2019s what happens when you\u2019re about to go to a Wimbledon final. The goal is to be better at being nervous. [Roger] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/roger-federer\">Federer<\/a> got nervous and Rafa [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/rafael-nadal\">Nadal<\/a>]. You think of him as this guy, this gamer, this competitor, he\u2019s like, \u2018I had such anxiety I had a hard time drinking water sometimes\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roddick also branded Muchova a \u201ccomplete player\u201d and that if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/coco-gauff\">Gauff<\/a> ever wins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/wimbledon\">Wimbledon<\/a>, she will look back on the 2026 championships as the year she cracked grass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT NEXT? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/wimbledon\/jannik-sinner-novak-advantage-wimbledon-showdown\">Jannik Sinner handed big advantage over Novak Djokovic ahead of Wimbledon clash<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former world No 1 defends Coco Gauff by invoking Carlos Alcaraz and Rafael Nadal after Wimbledon heartbreak Richie Mills 10 Jul 2026 1:32 PM Coco Gauff looks dejected at Wimbledon, with Carlos Alcaraz (inset) Andy Roddick has come to the aid of Coco Gauff after she threw away a match point in her Wimbledon semi-final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-2036753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2036753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2036753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2036753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2036753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}