American teen wins again at Wimbledon

WIMBLEDON, England — There are ways in which Coco Gauff is just like any other 15-year-old American, watching whatever videos Youtube recommends for her, from makeup tutorials to anything that’ll make her laugh.

And then there is what happens when Gauff has a tennis racket in her hands, making her unlike most teenagers. With big shots and a calm beyond her years, she followed up her upset of Venus Williams by moving into the third round at Wimbledon on Wednesday night via a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia.

Gauff needed less than 70 minutes to get past the 30-year-old Rybarikova. Gauff didn’t face a break point and again played cleanly, this time with only 10 unforced errors.

The toughest part for Gauff might have been dealing with everything on the periphery that came with that win over Williams.

“I could lie and say I felt normal,” Gauff said. “It was honestly so hard, just with social media and everything, trying to focus on my next match, because people are still posting about Venus.”

A youngster on the men’s side is also turning heads.

Felix AugerAliassime, a 19th-seeded Canadian who is just 18 and never had won one Grand Slam match until this week, advanced to the third round in his debut at the All England Club with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 victory over French qualifier Corentin Moutet.

Auger-aliassime boasts a big serve that reached 131 mph and helped him save 12 of 14 break points. His forehand can end a point when he needs it to. So can his backhand. And his returns were good enough to win the first point in 11 of Moutet’s 18 service games.

In a Wimbledon full of upsets, Reilly Opelka pulled off another one. The 6-foot-11 American with the big serve defeated three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka 7-5, 3-6, 4-6, 6-4, 8-6.