NGUYEN: Yeah, I think this is going to be a really interesting match between them. And now she's going to play Karolina Muchova, the Czech player, another star. I guess we should mention she is - and you'll correct me if I'm wrong - the first person in her teens to make the semifinals since Serena Williams many years ago. INSKEEP: And you mentioned first since Serena. And the fact that the results are going with it is just really encouraging. I mean, I've never seen Coco smile and laugh as much as she has here in New York. And now she's starting to embrace it, and she's having a blast. So she's always had, you know, next since Serena, next since Venus. And she's been tagged as the next big thing since she was young. And it's - even the little things that used to maybe create so much pressure in her own head. NGUYEN: Yeah, she's just embracing all of it. After she won, she took maybe half a dozen tennis balls and began whacking them with her racket into the crowd. Maybe this is a thing that happens all the time in tennis matches, but I don't often see it. INSKEEP: You know, you mentioned the charisma. And now we're seeing kind of that swell into being a really big mainstream phenomenon within the sport. She has incredible grit in terms of how she competes, and that's how she's been able to just get the tennis world on her side from the very beginning. She's an incredible athlete, has been since she started on the tour at 15 years old - incredible court coverage, big serve, good forehand, good backhand. But what makes her a great player is really the X's and O's of tennis. I mean, her charisma on the court is what brings people in. But even through the screen, you could sense this person's power and enthusiasm. INSKEEP: OK, so I got a chance to see Coco Gauff in the quarterfinals - I mean, from my couch. We're going to go now to Courtney Nguyen, a senior writer for WTA Insider in New York. She is 19, which is prime time for tennis players, and she has looked like she's in her prime on her way into the semis. Open tennis semifinals in New York include the American Coco Gauff.
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