DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — It’s a breezy Tuesday evening in South Florida and Coco Gauff is hanging out in the Delray Beach park where she probably spent more waking hours of her childhood than anywhere except her family home.
Her dad, Corey, is here in Pompey Park. So is her grandfather, Eddie ‘Red’ Odom. The baseball field on the other side of the trees is named for him. An aunt is here. Seemingly every other person says they are a cousin.
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A bunch of little kids who look like Gauff once did are whacking tennis balls on a couple of free public courts tucked into the corner of the park. Gauff
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