"Snoop Dogg has good fashion" - Coco Gauff jokes about featuring on rapper's Paris Olympics-themed t-shirt
Coco Gauff has hilariously joked about featuring prominently on Snoop Dogg's Team USA Paris Olympics-themed attire. The iconic rapper was among the final torchbearers during the 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony.
Gauff is one of the favorites to win the gold medal across women's singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles events in the prestigious Games' tennis tournament. In women's doubles, Gauff is partnering Jessica Pegula, with the duo being the No. 1 seeds in the draw. Meanwhile, the reigning US Open Champion has paired up with Taylor Fritz for the mixed doubles event.
The 2024 Paris Olympics marks Gauff's debut at the prestigious Games. She would have made her debut at the 2020 Olympics (held in 2021), but an unfortunate COVID-19 diagnosis compelled her to withdraw.
Recently, Gauff took to Instagram to share two back-to-back posts on Snoop Dogg, the famed rapper who was chosen as one of the final torchbearers during the Games' Opening Ceremony this year. The first post featured a still of the rapper, where he could be seen wearing a Team-USA themed jacket, which he combined with a t-shirt featuring Gauff. The World No. 2 captioned the post:
"Snoop has good fashion"
The next post featured a video of the rapper wearing the attire and dancing his way into the NBC studios. In addition to being an Olympics torchbearer this year, Dogg will also be working as a special correspondent for NBC as a part of its coverage of the Games. Gauff added a caption to this post as well.
"Mood. Never thought Snoop would wear a shirt with my face on it lol," Gauff wrote.
Coco Gauff got off to a winning start in both women's singles and doubles events at Paris Olympics 2024
Gauff's Olympics debut in singles couldn't have gone any better, as the World No. 2 dismantled Team Australia's Ajla Tomljanovic 6-3, 6-0 on Sunday, July 28, on Roland Garros' historic Court Phillipe-Chatrier. It took the reigning US Open champion only 57 minutes to cement her spot in the women's singles second round, as she created nine break point opportunities and converted six of them against Tomljanovic.
It was a great beginning for Gauff on the doubles front as well, where she and partner Pegula made short work of Australians Ellen Perez and Daria Saville, with the American duo romping to a 6-3, 6-1 win.
Gauff's next outing is set to be her second-round singles clash against Argentina's Maria Lourdes Carle on Monday, July 29. Her mixed doubles campaign with Fritz will most likely commence on Tuesday, July 30.