Coco Gauff shakes off reading slump with French lessons on Duolingo
Last year Coco Gauff celebrated her high school graduation in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and now she’s hitting the books again to add “French speaker” to her growing resume. Well, maybe not ‘hitting the books’—as the American has recently said she’s been losing motivation to get through her ambitious reading list this summer. “I’ve been in a reading slump since Wimbledon, to be honest. So I’m trying to figure that out,” she smiled during a pre-tournament press conference at the Western & Southern Open. “I have a lot of books that I’ve bought, but I haven’t read them. I’m behind on my reading goal for the year, so I don’t know if I’ve just kind of given up on it… “I’ve just been focused on Duolingo lately!” The American has been learning French in what she called “a slow, very slow process”. She flexed her budding language skills in Paris, where she delighted the crowd with a few French phrases, and recently greeted fans in Montreal in both languages. “I have my longest