Coco Gauff Customizes Her New Balance Shoes With Quotes From Her Family
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To compete in the Australian Open 2024 on Friday in Melbourne, Coco Gauff donned her signature model New Balance Coco CG1 tennis shoes adorned with several subtle personally inscribed messages along the sole’s edge.
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The Coco CG1 tennis shoes, Gauff’s shoes were customized with personal inspirational messages. Inscribed on the sneaker’s sole are quotes from her parents, names of her family members and coordinates to memorable locations. The player told Jelena Dokic during a post-match interview for Wide World of Sports.
One of the quotes, “You can change the world with your racquet,” is something her father has repeated to her since she was a little girl.
Another inscription included the star’s little brothers’ names who were shouted out during Gauff’s post-match moments with the press. Lastly, Gauff revealed writing “the coordinates to the park I grew up at in Pompey Park” on her shoes, inspired by the public tennis courts in Delray Beach, Fla., where the star originally began playing.
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Gauff’s first signature sneaker with New Balance, originally designed in a more muted all-white color scheme, has been relaunched in a new “Primary Power” colorway and includes shades of red, yellow, and blue. The shoes feature a full-length Ndurance outsole for added durability in high-wear areas, NDure upper technology, a non-marking outsole and a herringbone-pattern outsole for added traction during lateral movements.
Gauff, an American professional tennis player from Atlanta Georgia, has won seven WTA Tour singles titles, including a major at the 2023 U.S. Open and eight doubles titles. The athlete additionally has career-high rankings of world No. 3 in singles and of world No. 1 in doubles by the Women’s Tennis Association.
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