Coco Gauff: Parents, Net Worth, Coach and Career Explained

Most players spend years waiting for a breakthrough. Gauff's came in public, at 15, when she qualified for Wimbledon in 2019 and beat Venus Williams in the first round. A few months later she won her first WTA title in Linz, beating Jelena Ostapenko in the final. She has not left the conversation since.

She is 22 now, and the list of what she has already done is long: two major singles titles, a doubles major, the 2024 WTA Finals, a career high of No. 2 and, at the Paris Olympics in 2024, the honor of carrying the US flag at the opening ceremony alongside LeBron James. Her WTA profile describes her own game in a phrase: "aggressive as possible with a big serve."

Start with what is official. The WTA's career list of November 2, 2026 puts Coco Gauff on $36,836,617, ninth on the all-time list, and she had added $7,077,496 in 2026 by mid-October. The single biggest cheque was the $4,805,000 she won at the 2024 WTA Finals, which the Associated Press reported as a record payout in women's tennis.

Then the part that is not official. Forbes estimated her total earnings at $35.5 million for the twelve months before the 2026 US Open, with $7.5 million from prize money and $28 million off court. That off-court figure, close to four dollars in five, was the largest of any active woman on the list, and it is why Forbes named her the world's highest-paid female athlete in December 2025. Those are estimates, and Forbes labels them as such.

A net worth is a different thing again, because it would need her investments, taxes, spending and the cost of her team, none of which are public. So this page shows the official prize money and the Forbes estimate side by side and stops there. The richest tennis players tracker puts her beside the other top earners on the same basis.

Both of her major titles came from a set down against the same opponent. At the 2023 US Open she beat Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 to become a Grand Slam champion at 19. At Roland Garros in 2025 she beat Sabalenka again, 6-7(5), 6-2, 6-4. The one she lost, in Paris in 2022 against Iga Swiatek, was her first major final at 18. Women play best of three sets at the majors, the format explained in why women play three sets, so a lost first set leaves no margin, and both finals were won from exactly there. The 2025 final was played on Court Philippe-Chatrier, the largest of the courts mapped in how many courts Roland Garros has.

Her doubles record adds another major, the 2024 Roland Garros women's doubles title with Katerina Siniakova. She has also been No. 1 in the doubles rankings.

Her first big hard-court summer was 2023. It started with the Washington title, the event covered in our Washington Open prize money guide, and ended with the US Open trophy about a month later.