The new year is almost upon us, and there's a crop of young players ready to make even bigger marks on the world in 2020. Let's count down the Top 10 ATP and WTA youth to watch:
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Coco Gauff
Age: 15
Ranking: No. 68
The players who defined women's tennis in 2019—Simona Halep, Bianca Andreescu, etc.—were the ones who saw the challenges in front of them and faced them head-on without hesitation.
Cori "Coco" Gauff figured out how to do that early, very early. At age 15, in her first match in the main draw of Wimbledon, she snatched a straight-sets win from recent finalist Venus Williams, propelling herself to stardom, and to two more victories there: six in a row, counting qualifying.
Gauff went 10-4 on the women's tour for the remainder of the season, taking her first WTA singles title, and two in doubles for good measure. Her only main-draw Slam losses came to established stars, Halep and Naomi Osaka.