After Coco Gauff defeated Marta Kostyuk in the Australian Open quarterfinals in 2024, former world No. 10 Arnaud Clement criticised Coco Gauff’s “extremely poor” performance. The former French tennis player expressed amazement at both rivals’ poor play when he remarked on the match on Eurosport.
The 21-year-old Kostyuk showed greater aggression during the game, recording 39 wins and 56 unforced errors, compared to 17 winners and 51 unforced errors for Gauff. This indicates that a player’s error accounted for 44% of the points that were played.
The oddity of seeing a Grand Slam quarterfinal match with so many mistakes was brought up by former world No. 10 Clement. “I rarely commented on a match of this quality at this stage of the competition,” he said.
“It was quite unexpected. The two players will not be placed in the same bag by us. Kostyuk was a risk-taker, successful, and prone to unintentional mistakes. As an example, Coco Gauff did not do anything during the entire game, according to the 2001 Australian Open finalist.
