Patriarch Corey Gauff, who owns a sports bar in Delray Beach, Florida, where the family lives and where he coaches his daughter, says he’s grateful his wife, Candi, was there to usher their eldest child through her awkward adolescence and sense of isolation.
“I am grateful my wife and her were able to work through this when she was 13 and 14, with her feelings and playing tennis and going to high school, how she wanted to dress and look,” Corey Gauff said. “And I’m grateful she was open to talk to her mom about it, because a lot of times teenagers turn to drugs or other people or alcohol or something else to kind of deal with this uncertainty in their life in this period. And fortunately for us she didn’t.”
That mother-daughter counseling session changed Coco’s life and propelled her towards tennis greatness.
