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American tennis star Coco Gauff has a boyfriend, Jalen Sera, who she has been courting since 2023 — placing rumors of a romance with Ben Shelton to mattress. Gauff, 21, and Shelton, 22, have been noticed out and about in Melbourne earlier this 12 months, fueling courting rumors.

However, the tennis stars have been longtime buddies, and there is nothing more to the rumors of a potential romance. Gauff has been in a relationship with Sera since 2023 and has supported his girlfriend’s profession.

Sera, from Atlanta, hasn’t been seen publicly with Gauff, however he has used his Instagram to assist the 2023 U.S. Open winner. “Warrior,” Sera wrote whereas sharing Gauff’s after after her epic three-set victory within the Italian Open semifinals in opposition to Qinwen Zheng. 

In March, Sera reposted Gauff’s pink carpet look from this 12 months’s Oscars. “Regal,” he wrote. And whereas Gauff has remained tight-lipped over their romance, she did post a image of the couple standing subsequent to one another in November 2024.

In the images, there have been a number of images with buddies on the Camp Flog Gnaw music competition in Los Angeles, which was created by artist Tyler, The Creator, who DM’d her following her 2023 maiden Grand Slam. “That was really cool. I was not expecting it,” Gauff informed reporters at WTA Finals final 12 months. “It was crazy because he DM’d me congratulations over China Open [which Gauff won October 6]. We never talked or anything before. He liked my photo or something when I won [the] U.S. Open.”

Gauff added: “Then my boyfriend is like, ‘Watch, he’s going to drop you in a song.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, that would be insane. That’s never going to happen.’ Three weeks later, it happened. I was like, ‘Can he see into the future or what?'”

Gauff additionally confirmed that her different half was not actively concerned in tennis, additional shutting down the Shelton rumors. The U.S. No. 1 enjoys having a totally different perspective outdoors of sport.

“To just have someone to talk to who is not involved in tennis at all gives me a fresh perspective,” Gauff informed Time magazine in April. Gauff is on the charge in search of a second singles Slam.

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After a robust 12 months, Gauff is slowly returning to her best. She turned in underwhelming performances at Indian Wells and the Miami Open however made back-to-back finals on the Spanish and Italian Open. Gauff misplaced each finals, however she has regained her confidence in Roland-Garros.

Gauff is into the third spherical in opposition to Marie Bouzkova and will not face Aryna Sabalenka or Iga Swiatek till the ultimate, ought to she get there. “I think just accepting the highs and lows. I think sometimes in sports you want to just stay on the high and kind of ride that wave, but especially with this sport, a season as long as tennis, it’s impossible to always be on that high wave, and there’s going to be some low moments, I think,” she stated to the Roland-Garros web site earlier than the event.

“Just trying to stick through those tough moments and get better through them. Not feeling like the rest of the season is going to go that way. I feel like I’m able to turn it around. It’s happened before. I think it just takes one match or two matches to kind of get that confidence back.”