Coco Gauff Biography 2026: Teen Prodigy to Slam Champion

Last updated: November 7, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

Coco Gauff is 22 years old, a two-time Grand Slam champion, and already one of the richest athletes in women’s sport. She was born Cori Dionne Gauff on March 13, 2004, turned professional at 14, and announced herself to the world at 15 by beating Venus Williams at Wimbledon in 2019. Seven years later she owns the 2023 US Open title, the 2025 French Open title, 12 singles titles, a WTA Finals crown, and a fortune Celebrity Net Worth now puts at $50 million.

The numbers only tell half the story. Gauff reached her first Grand Slam final at 18, won her first at 19, and spent the 2026 season rebuilding the serve that had threatened to hold her back, then won Cincinnati, reached the finals in Miami and Rome, and made the semifinals at Wimbledon and the US Open. She enters the WTA Finals on November 8, 2026, ranked world No. 4, with a 47-15 record for the year and a fifth straight appearance at the season-ending championship.

This biography answers the questions people actually search for, how old she is, where she was born, who her parents and coach are, how many Grand Slams she has won, what she is worth, and whether she is married, then tells the full story behind them: the childhood in Delray Beach, the junior titles, the Wimbledon breakthrough, the two Slam finals against Aryna Sabalenka, the endorsement empire, and the 2026 season that put her back in the hunt for a third major.

The Answer: 22, Two Grand Slams, and a Career Still Climbing

Coco Gauff is 22 years old in November 2026. She was born on March 13, 2004, and she turned 22 on March 13, 2026, the same month she staged a comeback win over Alycia Parks at the Miami Open and reached her first Miami final. She has won two Grand Slam singles titles: the 2023 US Open and the 2025 French Open. She has reached one more Grand Slam final, at the 2022 French Open, and she owns 12 singles titles, 10 doubles titles, a WTA Finals crown, and a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2.

The short version of her career fits in one sentence: a child prodigy who became a teenage star, then a Grand Slam champion before her 20th birthday, then a two-time major winner before her 22nd. The longer version is more interesting, because the path was never smooth. She lost a French Open final at 18. She split with coaches, rebuilt her forehand, and spent a full season fighting a serve that produced double faults at the worst moments, 12 of them in a US Open quarterfinal she still won. She answered that season by winning Cincinnati in August 2026 and reaching the semifinals at Wimbledon and the US Open.

Her fortune matches the career. Celebrity Net Worth’s current page puts her at $50 million, with career prize money past $36.7 million and endorsement income that Forbes says made her the highest-paid female athlete in the world in both 2024 and 2025. The honest range is $35 million to $50 million: the $35 million figure comes from older profiles, and the $50 million figure is the updated one. Either way, she is 22 and already one of the richest athletes in her sport.

Atlanta, Boca Raton, and Delray Beach: Where Coco Gauff Is Really From

Ask where Coco Gauff was born and you will get three different answers, depending on which profile you open. Older profiles, including Wikipedia’s own August 2025 version, Sportscasting, and the Hindustan Times, say Atlanta, Georgia. The Roland Garros profile says Delray Beach, Florida. The current Wikipedia profile, updated May 28, 2026, says she was born at West Boca Medical Center in Boca Raton, Florida, on March 13, 2004. That is the version this article uses, because it is the most recent and the most specific: it names the hospital.

The confusion has a simple cause. Her parents, Corey and Candi Gauff, are both from Delray Beach, Florida. The family lived in Atlanta in her earliest years, Wikipedia’s older text says she spent her first seven years there, and moved back to Delray Beach when Coco was 6. She was raised in Delray Beach, she still lives and trains in Florida, and Delray Beach is the place she calls home. Atlanta is where she spent her early childhood. Boca Raton is where she was born, on the current record. All three places are part of the story, and none of them is the whole story.

Her parents are the reason the story starts the way it does. Corey Gauff played basketball at Georgia State University and later became his daughter’s coach, the man who built her game from the ground up. Candi Odom Gauff was a gymnast who switched to track and field at Florida State University. Both of them were NCAA Division I athletes, and both of them left their own careers to back their daughter’s. That is not a detail, it is the foundation of the whole career. Gauff did not come from a tennis family. She came from an athletic family that chose tennis for her and then organized its life around that choice.

She picked up a racket at 6, the age the family moved to Delray Beach, and the move was made for the tennis. Florida is where American tennis players are made: the academies, the weather, the year-round courts. Gauff trained at the Mouratoglou Academy in France as a junior, the academy run by Serena Williams’s former coach Patrick Mouratoglou, and the Serena connection runs through her whole childhood. She was four years old when she watched Serena win the 2009 Australian Open on television, and that match is the one she names as the moment she wanted to play. She grew up idolizing the Williams sisters, then beat one of them, Venus, at Wimbledon, at 15, in the match that made her famous.

The Junior Years: A 13-Year-Old Finalist and a French Open Title

Gauff’s junior record reads like a list of firsts. At 10, she won the USTA Clay Court National 12-and-under title. At 13, in 2017, she reached the US Open girls’ singles final, the youngest finalist in the event’s history. A year later, at 14, she won the 2018 French Open junior singles title, the youngest champion there since 1994, and she finished the year as the world No. 1 junior. She also won the 2018 US Open junior doubles title.

The junior numbers matter because they explain what happened next. Gauff did not arrive on the WTA Tour as a hopeful. She arrived as the best junior in the world, with a game built for the professional tour rather than the junior circuit: a big serve for her age, speed that covered the court in a way few teenagers could match, and a backhand that was already a weapon. The junior titles were the proof. The professional breakthrough was the payoff, and it came fast, within a year of her last junior title.

She turned professional in 2018, at 14, and made her WTA debut at the Miami Open in March 2019, at 15. She lost in the first round. Three months later, at Wimbledon, she did something no 15-year-old had done in the Open Era: she came through qualifying as a wildcard and reached the main draw as the youngest qualifier in the tournament’s modern history. The draw gave her Venus Williams in the first round. The match gave her the world.

Wimbledon 2019: The Night a 15-Year-Old Beat Venus Williams

July 1, 2019, is the date Gauff’s life changed. She walked onto Court 1 at Wimbledon as a 15-year-old qualifier ranked No. 313 in the world, and she walked off having beaten Venus Williams, a five-time Wimbledon champion, 6-4, 6-4. The age gap was 24 years. Williams had won her first Wimbledon title in 2000, four years before Gauff was born. Gauff had been four years old when she watched Serena win the 2009 Australian Open. Now she was beating Serena’s sister on the biggest stage in the sport.

The match itself was not a fluke. Gauff served well, moved well, and held her nerve in the moments that usually break a teenager. She broke Williams late in both sets and closed out the match with the calm of a player who had been there before, which she had not. The crowd on Court 1 rose for her, and the tennis world spent the next two weeks learning her name. She beat Magdalena Rybarikova in the second round and Polona Hercog in the third, saving match points along the way, before losing to Simona Halep, the eventual champion, in the fourth round.

The fourth-round run made her the youngest player to reach the second week of Wimbledon since Jennifer Capriati in 1991. It also made her a star in a way no ranking ever could. She was on the front pages, on the talk shows, and in the sponsorship meetings before she had won a single WTA title. The attention was the prize and the problem at once: she was 15, and the sport had decided she was its future before she had finished being a teenager.

What gets lost in the retelling is how close the whole thing came to not happening. Gauff needed a wildcard just to enter qualifying, and she needed to win three qualifying matches to reach the main draw. The youngest qualifier in the Open Era is a record that sounds grand in hindsight, but at the time it was a teenager winning matches on the outer courts while almost nobody watched. The Venus match was the first time most of the world had seen her play. She has been watched ever since.

Linz and the First Titles: The Youngest Champion Since 2004

Three months after Wimbledon, Gauff won her first WTA singles title at Linz, in October 2019, beating Jelena Ostapenko in the final. She was 15 years and 7 months old, the youngest Tour title-holder since Nicole Vaidisova in 2004. She had entered the tournament as a lucky loser, having lost in qualifying, and she won six matches in eight days to take the title. The lucky-loser detail is worth keeping: her first title came the same way her Wimbledon run had, through a door that was barely open.

The titles kept coming, and the pattern held. She won her second title at Parma in 2021, on clay, and her third at Auckland in January 2023. The Auckland win was the start of the season that changed everything: she won Washington later that summer, then Cincinnati, her first WTA 1000 title, and then the US Open. Four titles in eight months, three of them in the American summer, and a ranking that climbed to world No. 3 by the end of 2023.

By the time she lifted the Cincinnati trophy in August 2023, she had beaten Iga Swiatek for the first time, in the semifinal, after seven straight losses to the Pole. That win mattered as much as the title. Swiatek had been the wall Gauff kept hitting: the 2022 French Open final, the quarterfinals, the straight-sets losses. Beating her in Cincinnati, on hard courts, in three sets, was the proof that the gap was closing. Two weeks later, Gauff won the US Open.

The Grand Slam Record: Year by Year

Gauff’s Grand Slam record is the spine of this biography. She has played the majors since 2019, reached the second week of all four, and won two of them. The table below covers every season from her debut to 2026, with the result that defined each year.

Read the table from left to right and the arc is clear. The early years are scattered: a fourth round here, a first-round loss there, the 2020 Australian Open fourth round at 15. The middle years are the climb: a French Open final in 2022, a US Open title in 2023, semifinals in Australia and Paris in 2024. The 2026 row is the steadiest of her career at the business end of the year: a quarterfinal in Melbourne, a third-round exit in Paris, then a semifinal at Wimbledon and a semifinal in New York. She has not won a major since Paris in 2025, but she has not lost before the semifinals of one since the French Open either. The floor has risen even as the ceiling has stayed put.

Two rows in that table deserve their own sections. The first is 2023, the US Open title. The second is 2025, the French Open title. They are the two matches that define her, and they were both won against the same opponent.

New York 2023: The First Grand Slam Title

The 2023 US Open final was the match Gauff’s whole career had been building toward, and it started badly. Aryna Sabalenka, the world No. 1 in waiting, took the first set 6-2 in 40 minutes, hitting through Gauff’s forehand and holding the crowd at arm’s length. Arthur Ashe Stadium, the biggest tennis stadium in the world, went quiet. Gauff had been here before, in a way: she had lost the 2022 French Open final in straight sets, and the question hanging over her was whether she could win the big one when it mattered.

She answered it the way she has answered most things in her career: by running. Gauff’s speed is the foundation of her game, and in the second set she started using it to extend rallies, to make Sabalenka hit one more ball, to turn the match from a hitting contest into a test of patience. She took the second set 6-3. In the third, she broke early, held her nerve through a long service game at 4-2, and closed out the match 6-3. The final score was 2-6, 6-3, 6-3. She was 19 years old, the first American teenager to win the US Open since Serena Williams in 1999.

The title changed her standing overnight. She was no longer the prodigy or the promise. She was a Grand Slam champion, and the ranking followed: she reached world No. 3 by the end of 2023, and world No. 2 in the summer of 2024. The prize money followed too. The US Open winner’s cheque was $3 million, per the tournament’s published prize schedule, and the title made her the most marketable young athlete in American sport. The endorsements that had been building since Wimbledon 2019 turned into the portfolio that Forbes would later count at $25 million a year.

What the title did not do was settle anything. Gauff lost in the fourth round of the 2024 US Open, to Emma Navarro, and she lost in the first round of Wimbledon in 2023, the week after winning the title in Washington. The 2023 US Open was the peak of a summer, not the start of a reign. The second Slam would take two more years, and it would come on the surface where she had first learned to lose a final.

Paris 2025: The Second Slam, on Clay

Gauff’s first Grand Slam final had been at Roland Garros, in 2022, and it had been a lesson. Iga Swiatek beat her 6-1, 6-3 in 68 minutes, and Gauff cried at the trophy ceremony, then gave a speech about gun violence in America that was praised more than her tennis. She was 18. She had reached a major final before she was old enough to buy a drink in the country where she had just played it.

Three years later she was back in the same final, against the same kind of opponent, and this time she won. Aryna Sabalenka, the world No. 1, took the first set in a tiebreak, 7-6, and Gauff’s serve was misfiring in the wind on Court Philippe-Chatrier. Then the match turned the way the US Open final had: Gauff started running, started making Sabalenka play, and took the second set 6-2 and the third 6-4. The final score was 6-7, 6-2, 6-4. She had beaten the world No. 1 in a Grand Slam final, on clay, in the city where she had won her junior title at 14.

The 2025 season around that title was the best of her career. She won Wuhan, a WTA 1000 event, in October, and she reached the finals in Madrid and Rome, becoming the first American to reach three WTA 1000 finals in a calendar year since Serena Williams in 2014. She also won the French Open doubles title in 2024, with Katerina Siniakova, beating Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini in the final. The doubles title is easy to overlook, and it should not be: Gauff reached world No. 1 in doubles in 2024, and her 10 doubles titles include the biggest clay-court prize in the sport.

The Paris title also settled the Sabalenka question. Gauff had lost to Sabalenka in big matches and beaten her in bigger ones, and the head-to-head is now a genuine rivalry rather than a one-way street. She beat Sabalenka in the 2023 US Open final and the 2025 French Open final, the two biggest matches of her career, and she lost to her in the 2026 Miami final. The three finals tell the story of the rivalry: Gauff wins the ones that matter most, and Sabalenka wins the ones in between.

The 2026 Season: Cincinnati, Two Finals, and a Rebuilt Serve

Gauff’s 2026 season started with a racket smash. She lost to Elina Svitolina in the Australian Open quarterfinal, 6-1, 6-2, in 59 minutes, and she was filmed breaking a racket off court afterward. She apologized for it and asked broadcasters to respect players’ privacy in the moments after a loss. It was the low point of the year, and it came in January. The rest of the season was the climb back.

The climb had three stages. The first was the spring hard-court swing. She reached the semifinal in Dubai, then the final in Miami, her home tournament, where she rallied past Alycia Parks 2-6, 6-0, 6-1 in the third round, winning 12 of the last 13 games, per the WTA, then beat Sorana Cirstea, Belinda Bencic, and Karolina Muchova 6-1, 6-1 in the semifinal. She lost the final to Sabalenka, 2-6, 6-4, 3-6, but she had reached her first Miami final, and she had done it in front of a home crowd. The second stage was the clay season: a final in Rome, where she lost to Svitolina again, and a third-round exit at the French Open, where her title defense ended against Anastasia Potapova. The third stage was the summer: a semifinal at Wimbledon, where she lost to Karolina Muchova, and then Cincinnati.

Cincinnati was the title that made the season. Gauff beat Jessica Pegula 6-2, 6-4 in the final on August 23, 2026, her first title since Wuhan the previous October and her second Cincinnati crown, after the one in 2023 that had launched her US Open run. It was her 12th singles title and her fourth WTA 1000 title. She had come up short in finals in Miami and Rome, and she had lost early in Paris. Cincinnati was the answer to all of it, and it came a week before the US Open.

New York gave her the season’s best story. She saved two match points against Mirra Andreeva in the US Open quarterfinal, despite committing 12 double faults, and she beat Iva Jovic in the round of 16 before that. She lost the semifinal to Elena Rybakina, who went on to the final against Sabalenka. The serve was still the problem: 12 double faults in a match she won is a number that would sink most players, and Gauff won anyway, because her movement and her nerve covered for it. The serve rebuild is the project of her career, and the 2026 season showed it working in flashes rather than in full.

The numbers for the year, as of November 4, 2026, per The Sports Encounter: 47 wins, 15 losses, three finals, one title, and semifinal runs at Wimbledon and the US Open. She also lost in the round of 16 at the China Open, to Elise Mertens, 3-6, 3-6. She enters the WTA Finals at Indian Wells, November 8-15, ranked world No. 4, making her fifth consecutive appearance at the season-ending championship. Her first match is against Pegula, the woman she beat in the Cincinnati final. A second WTA Finals title, after the one she won in 2024, would make 2026 the best season of her career on paper, even without a Grand Slam.

The Money: Prize Money, Endorsements, and the -50 Million Question

Coco Gauff’s fortune comes from two streams, and the second one is bigger than the first. Her career prize money stands at $36.7 million or more, per Celebrity Net Worth’s current page, and Tennis Temple puts it at $36.8 million. That is the money she has won on court: the Grand Slam cheques, the WTA 1000 titles, the $4.805 million she collected for winning the 2024 WTA Finals, the largest single payout in women’s tennis history, per Yardbarker. The endorsements are the larger stream. Forbes puts her total earnings at $34.4 million in 2024 and $33 million in 2025, and Celebrity Net Worth reports $35.5 million in the 12 months to August 2026, with about $28 million of that coming from off-court work. Prize money is the smaller part of her income now. The brand is the bigger part.

The brand is built on a sponsor list that reads like a blue-chip index. New Balance is the anchor: her apparel and footwear deal, reported at about $1 million a year, with a signature shoe line that carries her name. Head supplies the racket. Rolex, Bose, Mercedes-Benz, UPS, Barilla, Chase, Fanatics, Baker Tilly, and L’Oréal round out the portfolio, with American Express, Ray-Ban and Meta smart glasses, and Beats by Dre also reported by Parade. She launched Coco Gauff Enterprises in 2025 to take greater control over the endorsements, investments, and philanthropy herself, per Celebrity Net Worth, which is the move of an athlete who knows the brand is worth more than the prize money.

The net worth question has two answers, and both of them are printed here. Celebrity Net Worth’s current page says $50 million. Older profiles, including Parade in January 2026 and EssentiallySports in July 2026, say $35 million, and they were citing Celebrity Net Worth too, before the page was updated. The $35 million figure is the stale one. The $50 million figure is the current one, and it reflects a year in which she earned $35.5 million and added a second Grand Slam title and a WTA 1000 crown. The honest range is $35 million to $50 million, anchored on the $50 million current figure. Readers who want the full money breakdown, including the year-by-year earnings and the endorsement math, can read Coco Gauff’s net worth on our sister site NetWorthCraft, which anchors its estimate at $35 million. Our own Coco Gauff net worth profile covers the same fortune from the Guide Net Worth side.

Forbes named her the highest-paid female athlete in the world in 2023, 2024, and 2025, and the 2024 figure of $34.4 million put her ahead of every other woman in sport, including the golfers and the boxers. She was 20 years old. The 2025 figure of $33 million kept her at the top. The reason is not the prize money, which is smaller than the men’s game’s, but the endorsements, which are larger than almost any other female athlete’s. Gauff is American, young, marketable, and a Grand Slam champion, and the sponsors pay for all four of those things at once. TIME named her one of its Women of the Year in 2024, and the award sits alongside the tennis as part of the brand.

The comparison that puts the fortune in context is Aryna Sabalenka, the world No. 1 and the woman Gauff beat in both of her Grand Slam finals. Celebrity Net Worth puts Sabalenka at about $22 million, per a 2026 comparison piece, which means Gauff is worth more than twice as much as the player ranked above her. The gap is not the tennis. Sabalenka has earned more prize money in 2026, about $5.16 million to Gauff’s $4.43 million through August, per WTA data cited in the same piece. The gap is the endorsements. Gauff’s off-court income is the largest in women’s tennis, and it is the reason her net worth is double her rival’s while her ranking is lower.

The Team Around Her: Faurel, MacMillan, and the Serve Rebuild

Gauff’s coach since 2023 is Jean-Christophe Faurel, a Frenchman who took over after her split with Brad Gilbert. Gilbert had been the big-name hire: the American coach who had worked with Andre Agassi and Andy Roddick, brought in for the 2023 summer, and credited with the tactical changes that helped her win the US Open. The partnership lasted just over a year. Faurel, who had worked with Gauff as a junior, is the quieter choice, and the results under him speak for themselves: the 2025 French Open title, the Wuhan title, and the 2026 Cincinnati title.

Before Gilbert, there was Pere Riba, the Spanish coach who worked with her in 2023, and Diego Moyano, the Argentine who coached her as a teenager. The coaching carousel is the one part of her career that looks unsettled, and it is worth saying why. Gauff’s father, Corey, has been her coach since childhood, and the professional coaches work around him rather than replacing him. That arrangement has produced results, and it has also produced friction, because the father-coach and the hired coach do not always agree. The Faurel partnership has lasted longer than any of the others, which suggests the arrangement has settled.

The other name on the team is Gavin MacMillan, the biomechanics specialist who works on her serve. The serve is the technical project of her career: a motion that produces aces and double faults in the same game, and a second serve that opponents attack. MacMillan’s work is the reason the 2026 season showed improvement, and the reason the double faults still appear in the biggest matches. The serve will decide whether she wins a third Grand Slam. The rest of her game is already good enough.

Ranking and Rivals: Where She Stands Against Sabalenka and Pegula

Gauff is ranked world No. 4 in November 2026, behind Sabalenka, Swiatek, and Rybakina, and ahead of Pegula, her Cincinnati final opponent and her first opponent at the WTA Finals. Her career-high ranking is world No. 2, reached in the summer of 2024, after the French Open semifinal and the doubles No. 1 ranking. She has been in the top 5 for most of the last three years, and she has never dropped out of the top 10 since she first entered it. That consistency is the quiet achievement of her career: the ranking has never collapsed, even in the seasons when the titles did not come.

The rivalries define the ranking. Sabalenka is the world No. 1 and the player Gauff has beaten in two Grand Slam finals, but Sabalenka has won more of their meetings on hard courts in between, including the 2026 Miami final. Swiatek is the player who beat her in the 2022 French Open final and in seven straight meetings before Cincinnati 2023, and the gap between them has narrowed to a genuine contest. Pegula is the American rival, the woman Gauff beat in the 2026 Cincinnati final to square their head-to-head at five wins each, per Sports Mole, and the woman she beat in the Wimbledon quarterfinal earlier in the 2026 season. Rybakina is the newest rival, the woman who beat her in the 2026 US Open semifinal and went on to the final.

Against her peers, Gauff’s edge is her age. She is 22. Sabalenka is 28. Swiatek is 25. Pegula is 32. Rybakina is 27. Gauff has more time than any of them, and she has already won as much as most of them. The 2026 season, with its 47 wins and its Cincinnati title, suggests the best years are still ahead of her, not behind her. The ranking says No. 4. The age says there is time to reach No. 1.

Personal Life: Private by Choice

Gauff is not publicly known to be married, and she has not publicly confirmed a partner. That is the whole of what the public record says, and this article will not add to it. She keeps her private life private, and she has said so in interviews: the tennis is public, the rest is not. Fans and gossip outlets speculate, as they always do with a young star, but speculation is not reporting, and no partner has been named by Gauff herself or by any credible outlet with her confirmation.

What is public is the family. Her parents, Corey and Candi, travel with her and sit in her box. Her younger brothers, Cameron and Codey, are part of the story too. The family is close, and the closeness is visible in the way Gauff talks about them after matches. She credits her father with her game and her mother with her grounding, and she has said that the family’s move to Delray Beach, and the sacrifices that came with it, are the reason she is here at all.

Off court, she is one of the most outspoken young athletes in American sport. She spoke about gun violence in America after the 2022 French Open final, she has spoken about racial justice, and she was a flag bearer for Team USA at the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony, alongside LeBron James. The flag bearer role is the honor that says the most about her standing: she was 20, and the United States chose her to carry its flag into the Olympic stadium. The tennis made her famous. The voice made her matter.

What Comes Next: The WTA Finals and the Road to 2027

The WTA Finals run from November 8 to 15, 2026, at Indian Wells, and Gauff arrives as the third seed, ranked world No. 4, making her fifth consecutive appearance. Her first match is against Pegula, on Sunday, and the draw will test whether the serve changes of 2026 can survive consecutive matches against elite opposition. She won the title in 2024, beating Zheng Qinwen in the final and collecting the $4.805 million payout. A second title would make 2026 the best season of her career on paper, even without a Grand Slam, and it would send her into 2027 as the player to beat.

The longer road is the Australian Open in January 2027, the one major where she has never passed the semifinal, and the one where she lost to Svitolina in 59 minutes this year. A title in Melbourne would give her three Grand Slams on three surfaces, and it would put her halfway to a career Grand Slam before her 23rd birthday. The French Open defense in 2026 ended in the third round, and the 2027 edition will be the test of whether Paris 2025 was a peak or a platform.

The honest assessment is that Gauff is 22, ranked No. 4, with two Grand Slams, 12 titles, a $50 million fortune, and a serve that is still being rebuilt. The players ahead of her are older. The players behind her are younger. The window is open, and it will stay open for a decade. The biography of Coco Gauff is not finished. The chapters written so far are the early ones, and the best ones are the ones she has not played yet.

Sources & Reporting

Wikipedia (Coco Gauff profile, updated May 28, 2026: born at West Boca Medical Center, Boca Raton, Florida, March 13, 2004; parents from Delray Beach; junior titles; Wimbledon 2019; 2026 season results); Celebrity Net Worth (current page: $50 million net worth; $36.7 million-plus career prize money; $35.5 million total earnings in the 12 months to August 2026, about $28 million off court; Coco Gauff Enterprises, 2025; endorsement list: New Balance, Rolex, Bose, Chase, Mercedes-Benz, UPS, L’Oréal, Head, Fanatics, Baker Tilly); Parade (January 1, 2026: $35 million; Forbes $23 million in 2023, $16 million from endorsements; New Balance about $1 million a year; Ray-Ban and Meta smart glasses, Barilla, Baker Tilly, Beats by Dre, Bose, UPS); EssentiallySports (July 7, 2026: $35 million; Forbes $33 million in 2025, $25 million off court; career prize money $32.6 million; sponsors: New Balance, Head, Rolex, Bose, Mercedes-Benz, Barilla, American Eagle, Emirates, UPS, Fanatics, Baker Tilly, Carol’s Daughter); Yardbarker (August 21, 2026: $35 million; $34.2 million career prize money; $4.805 million WTA Finals payout, record for a women’s event); Forbes (highest-paid female athlete 2024 at $34.4 million and 2025 at $33 million); WTA (Miami Open comeback over Alycia Parks 2-6, 6-0, 6-1, March 21-22, 2026; Cincinnati 2026 champions reel); The Sports Encounter (November 4, 2026: 47-15 season record, Cincinnati title, Miami and Rome finals, Wimbledon and US Open semifinals, two match points saved vs Andreeva, 12 double faults); Sports Mole (November 7, 2026: WTA Finals preview, world No. 4, fifth consecutive appearance, Cincinnati final 6-2, 6-4 over Pegula, head-to-head squared at 5-5, Wimbledon quarterfinal win over Pegula); Flashscore (August 2026: Cincinnati final, first title since Wuhan October 2025, second Cincinnati crown); Sportradar (Indian Wells retirement vs Alexandra Eala, March 8, 2026, trailing 2-6, 0-2; US Open 2026 results: beat Jovic, beat Andreeva, lost to Rybakina in the semifinal); Tennis Up To Date (Miami 2026 final preview: route through Cocciaretto, Parks, Cirstea, Bencic, Muchova; lost final to Sabalenka 2-6, 6-4, 3-6); Pro Football Network (June 2026: Australian Open quarterfinal loss to Svitolina 6-1, 6-2; Rome final loss to Svitolina; French Open third-round loss to Potapova; Dubai semifinal; United Cup semifinal); Hindustan Times (September 7, 2026: born March 13, 2004, age 22; coach Jean-Christophe Faurel and Gavin MacMillan; net worth $35 million per Celebrity Net Worth); Tennis Temple ($36.8 million career earnings; birthplace Delray Beach listing); Sportscasting and The Famous People (birthplace Atlanta, Georgia — older profiles, superseded by the current Wikipedia profile). Reporting window: November 7, 2026. All net worth figures are estimates built from reported earnings and public estimates, not audited financial statements. Where outlets disagreed, this article prints the range and the reason for it. If new reporting emerges, this article will be updated and the change noted here.

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