With the astronomic rise of Coco Gauff, 21-year-old Sofia Kenin's scaling of the tennis rankings has flown somewhat under the radar.

Osaka, who overcame Serena Williams in last year’s final, is scheduled to meet 15-year-old Coco Gauff in … Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra and online; Live text on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app.American teenager Coco Gauff will again face Venus Williams in the first round of a Grand Slam after the pair were drawn together at the Australian Open.Gauff, 15, announced her arrival on the biggest stage by beating 39-year-old Williams, a seven-time Grand Slam singles winner, at Wimbledon in July.Britain's Johanna Konta, seeded 12th, will play Tunisia's Ons Jabeur.In the men's draw, British 30th seed Dan Evans meets American Mackenzie McDonald in Melbourne.Evans, 29, is playing in his first Slam as Britain's leading male player and could face Serbia's defending champion Novak Djokovic in the third round.Djokovic, who is aiming for a record-extending eighth title, does not have the easiest opener after being drawn against Germany's world number 37 Jan-Lennard Struff.The first Grand Slam of the year begins on Monday with the top half of the women's draw and the bottom half of the men's draw in action.Gauff's match against Venus Williams seems certain to feature in the first night session on Rod Laver Arena with Djokovic, Roger Federer, Serena Williams, 2019 women's champion Naomi Osaka, Konta and Evans among those also playing on day one. 9 Serena Williams among the women entered in the hard-court tournament that is the first professional tennis event in the United States since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.Gauff is No. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. 'cont 86.…...Wee Timmy Henman and mr Castle are extremely irritating too IMO…...more so because for all their waffle,they really didn't do that much........Its their tone of knowitall infallibility which is comical.I cant take even watching Sam Smith pontificate with the sound off...….Her utterly delusional manner comes across even with the sound off.Can someone please explain to me why, when talking about an Aussie tournament, in a British news service article, the main headline should be a 16 year old American who has won precisely nothing?Without doubt the biggest know it all and the worst commentator ever who never knows when to SHUT UP is Mark Petchey, absolutely unbearable I have to watch with the sound off. PLEASE GET RID OF HIM!This comment was removed because it broke the rules. @76 - 'Come off it Liam Broady it stinks of sour grapes to now come up with the poor air quality excuse because you lost yet again! US Open Tennis Gauff Schedule: Defending women’s champion Naomi Osaka will be in action during the evening part of the draw at the 2019 U.S. Open on Saturday.

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At one point, she implored herself: “I’ve got to make the first serves. Match of the Day: Coco Gauff vs. Ons Jabeur, Lexington quarterfinals. I wait,fully expecting to see a comprehensive in depth analysis from Sam Smith revealing the capacity of the human lung and a weather forecast which tells the density of the air in hundred yds squares. She might run into both Caroline Wozniacki and Serena Williams before the fourth round is out.But having played just one match since September, Konta will only be focused on her first round with the artistic Tunisian Ons Jabeur, who beat her in Eastbourne in June.Katie Boulter only returned to the tour in November after six months out with a stress fracture.

Australian Open 2020: Coco Gauff faces Venus Williams, Johanna Konta draws Ons Jabeur By Jonathan Jurejko BBC Sport at Melbourne Park Last updated on 16 January 2020 16 January 2020 . 2 seed Aryna Sabalenka 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-4 and reach the Top Seed Open quarterfinals with her third career victory over a top-15 opponent.The 16-year-old Gauff hit 10 double-faults and was broken seven times.“I guess,” she said afterward, “everything was an `A’ but the serving.”She was able to hang in there with steady baseline play against the hard-hitting Sabalenka, who had 14 double-faults, including four in one game.It was a topsy-turvy match that lasted nearly three hours and featured a bit of confusion when Gauff and her father, Cori, got into a discussion with the chair umpire about what sort of coaching is allowed under adjusted rules the WTA put in place recently.Of more concern to Gauff was the way she was starting off points in her service games. Australian Open previewHow to follow the Australian Open on BBC TV, radio & onlineSwiss great Federer has been drawn in the same half as second seed Djokovic, meaning the pair could meet in the semi-finals.Federer, 38, starts against American Steve Johnson and has a favourable-looking draw, although Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov - who memorably beat the Swiss in the US Open quarter-finals in September - and Canada's exciting talent Denis Shapovolov are potential opponents before the quarter-finals.Spanish top seed Rafael Nadal plays against Bolivia's Hugo Dellien in the first round, with the possibility of a blockbuster fourth-round match against Australia's Nick Kyrgios.The pair have not always seen eye-to-eye and met in a dramatic second-round match at Wimbledon last year, where Kyrgios tried to rattle Nadal with constant complaints about the Spaniard's slow play.British number two Cameron Norrie plays Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert in his opening match, while Kyle Edmund - who reached the semi-finals in Melbourne two years ago but has dropped to 69th in the world - has a tough opener against Serbia's 24th seed Dusan Lajovic.Russian fourth seed Daniil Medvedev, looking to win his first Grand Slam after reaching the 2019 US Open final, has been pitched against dangerous American floater Frances Tiafoe, who reached the quarter-finals last year.Australia's world number 21 Alex de Minaur pulled out on Thursday with an abdominal injury aggravated at last week's ATP Cup.With Gauff playing Venus Williams again, eyes were immediately focused on that section of the draw - an exciting quarter which also features Serena Williams among a host of stand-out names.The 38-year-old takes on Russian 18-year-old Anastasia Potapova first as she aims for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam singles title, and could face Gauff or her older sister in the quarter-finals.Osaka is also in the same quarter, the Japanese third seed starting against Czech Marie Bouzkova.Briton Konta, who reached the semi-finals in Melbourne in 2016, is another pitched into this loaded part of the women's draw.Serena Williams is a possible opponent in the last 16 for the British number one, who could also face 2018 champion and former world number one Caroline Wozniacki in the third round.The 29-year-old Dane, who enrolled at Harvard Business School in September and was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in 2018, is Britain's Katie Boulter aims to put a season wrecked by injury behind her after using her protected ranking of 85 to enter the year's first major, but must take on Ukrainian fifth seed Elina Svitolina in her opening match.British number two Heather Watson, ranked 101st, will play Czech world number 62 Kristyna Pliskova, twin sister of second seed Karolina.