Coco Gauff: How a Teenager from Florida Just Rebooted American Soft Power—One Topspin at a Time
The Empire Strikes Backhand: Coco Gauff as Twenty-First-Century Soft Power ————————————————————————– PARIS—On a humid Saturday evening, while the Seine lapped indifferently at its own reflection, a 19-year-old from Delray Beach, Florida, reminded the planet that the United States still knows how to weaponize a tennis ball. Coco Gauff’s 6-2, 6-3 demolition of Iga Świątek in…