French Open: Coco Gauff reaches quarterfinals and jokes with Frances Tiafoe about forgetting rackets

Coco Gauff might have earned her fifth consecutive trip to the French Open quarterfinals with a straight-set victory Monday, but she still is catching flak because she forgot to bring her rackets to a match earlier in the tournament. The No. 2-seeded Gauff, who won the 2023 U.S. Open and was the runner-up in Paris in 2022, has been engaging in a bit of back-and-forth with another American and Roland-Garros quarterfinalist, Frances Tiafoe, over the equipment blunder. Tiafoe teasingly called the 21-year-old Gauff “Mrs. Mature.”