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For a glimpse at the magic of March Madness, ask Coco Gauff’s father
For a glimpse at the magic of March Madness, ask Coco Gauff’s fatherMarch 21, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.Accessibility statement
Corey Gauff, shown with his tennis star daughter Coco, played for No. 16 seed Georgia State in the 1991 NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
memory bank in this 52-year-old man from Delray Beach, Fla. It teems with sights and sounds from around the world, such as his daughter walking onto Wimbledon stadium grass at 15 alongside Venus Williams, striding onto French clay at 18 for a Roland-Garros final, steering a clinching backhand pass at 19 and toppling onto the acrylic as a U.S. Open champion. It soars with a famed group hug on an Arthur Ashe Stadium concourse: this man, wife Candi and daughter Coco, the first occasion she had ever seen her father weep.