Coco Gauff wasn’t in a position to come to her post-match press convention on Sunday evening in Indian Wells, however she did take questions and reply them through a tour consultant.
The American misplaced to Alexandra Eala, 6-2, 2-0 RET and later described the ache she felt, which began in her left arm within the second sport of the match.
“I felt it, like, the second sport of the primary set,” she mentioned. “I suppose a easy strategy to put it, it felt like a firework was going off inside my arm, after which my complete arm felt prefer it was on fireplace.”
Gauff says she’ll no tomorrow, however she has a hunch the difficulty is nerve-related.
Yeah, we’re going to determine what it’s tomorrow, however based mostly off the sensation, being advised that it’s in all probability one thing nerve-related,” she mentioned. “By no means had something like this earlier than, by no means felt something, a sensation like this earlier than. After which because the match performed, it bought progressively worse, even once I wasn’t utilizing my arm on photographs that I wasn’t even utilizing my left arm for.
“It was feeling like fireworks at occasions. Yeah, it was a scary feeling, however yeah, I don’t know.”
That mentioned, Gauff believes the harm is nothing critical, and says she is going to seemingly be advantageous for the Miami Open later this month.
“We’re going tomorrow to get an MRI and to see what’s happening,” she mentioned. “Excellent news is that they don’t assume it’s going to be like a long-term sort of scenario, so I needs to be advantageous for Miami. We’ve simply bought to determine precisely what it’s and, I suppose, learn how to stop it sooner or later.”
