‘People were taking it too far’: Coco Gauff opens up on outburst directed at her by Aryna Sabalenka

Coco Gauff

Second seed Coco Gauff brushed off World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka's outburst directed at her after losing the French Open final last month, with the American instead trying to save the Belarusian's skin.

Sabalenka had claimed her loss to Gauff had more to do with her own mistakes than Gauff's performance.

The Belarusian has since publicly and personally apologised to the American, but faced plenty of backlash on social media.

"I'm not the person that will fuel hate in the world," said Gauff, who opens her Wimbledon campaign against Ukraine's Dayana Yastremska on Tuesday.

"I think people were taking it too far. It was just really targeting and saying a lot of things that I felt were not nice. I didn't want to fuel that more," she added.

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