Coco Gauff’s coach forced to apologise after tagging porn star in tweet as American reaches US Open semi-final
pBrad Gilbert, 62, has enjoyed tremendous success with Gauff since linking up with the American last month./p
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div class=oembed-container oembed-twitterblockquote class=twitter-tweet data-width=550 data-dnt=truep lang=en dir=ltrNOVAK SAYS YOU GOTTA FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO PARRRRRTY.brbrNovak goes a href=https://twitter.com/tkelce?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw@tkelce/a on us. a href=https://t.co/IVXtD18Og4pic.twitter.com/IVXtD18Og4/a/pmdash; US Open Tennis (@usopen) a href=https://twitter.com/usopen/status/1699159521698930826?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwSeptember 5, 2023/a/blockquotescript async src=https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js charset=utf-8/script/div
pBut the legendary tennis trainer is doubling up as an on-court interviewer at the US Open and even doing some punditry with ESPN./p
pHowever, the American is also known for his eccentric tweets./p
pAlthough his post on Tuesday evening had to be swiftly deleted./p
pThat is because of an accidental blunder from Gilbert./p
pThe tennis supercoach was commenting on Novak Djokovic#8217;s impromptu sing-song on Arthur Ashe Stadium after booking his place in a record-breaking 47th Grand Slam semi-final./p
pDjokovic beat Californian Taylor Fritz 6-1 6-4 6-4 and entertained the New York crowd some more by belting out a line from the Beastie Boys#8217; famous song./p
pThree-time US Open winner Djokovic #8211; who had a href=https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/23831195/us-open-novak-djokovic-shout-fan-taylor-fritz/earlier let rip at his own fan/a #8211; took the mic and sang: #8220;You gotta fight for your right to party!#8221;/p
pHis short performance went down a storm with the fans #8211; and Gilbert clearly enjoyed it too. /p
pBut his attempt to tag the Beastie Boys in his tweet ended up with him inadvertently drawing attention to Beastyboy #8211; an adult video content account. /p
pGilbert was alerted to his error and got rid of the post, then added: #8220;I will give myself a straight red card and 24-hour suspension for honest mistake on wrong tag.#8221;/p
pOne fan replied: #8220;That was a rough mistag, BG.#8221;/p
pAnother added: #8220;You cannot be serious!#8221;/p
pA third wrote: #8220;Oops! Honest mistake, no need for the red card. We#8217;ve all been there!#8221;/p
pAnd a final user commented: #8220;We love you BG.#8221;/p
pGilbert has worked with a long list of stars including Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick and Andy Murray before linking up with Gauff this summer. /p
pShe won the Washington Open and Cincinnati Masters, the biggest two titles of her career, in the build-up to this US Open./p
pAnd the No6 seed booked her place in her maiden semi-final at Flushing Meadows by thrashing Jelena Ostapenko 6-0 6-2./p
pAsked about Gilbert, Gauff said: #8220;He’s older but still has the mind of a 20-year-old. Maybe even younger, a ten-year-old kid sometimes./p
p#8220;He#8217;s been giving me Jolly Ranchers all the time. I take them but I don#8217;t eat them. At this point I can#8217;t have Jolly Ranchers every five minutes. /p
p#8220;He also doesn#8217;t like even numbers. He only likes odd numbers. Whenever he says something, you ask him what time it is, he#8217;s going to say 1.53 or 1.59. He won#8217;t say 12 or something basic./p
p“He#8217;s just a really quirky man. He doesn#8217;t sleep. He wakes up at 3.30am every morning. He was doing this in D.C. He goes for walks. /p
p#8220;He also has been sending me crazy playlists of #8217;60s and #8217;70s bands, but I haven#8217;t kept up with it.”/p
figure id=attachment_23851079 class=wp-caption alignnone style=width: 970pximg decoding=async loading=lazy src=https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/09/2023-coco-gauff-u-s-842688784.jpg?strip=allamp;w=960 alt= class=alignnone size-thesun-article-image wp-image-23851079 width=960 height=620 /figcaption class=wp-caption-text/figcaptionfigcreditReuters/figcredit/figureCoco Gauff has secured her spot in the US Open semi-finals[/caption]
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