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World number three ranked tennis player, USA’s Coco Gauff has been on an impressive run at the Australian Open 2025. The American continued her brilliant run on the blue-green set court as she defeated Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic to advance into the quarterfinals of the first Grand Slam of the year in Melbourne.

Gauff battled through the heat despite losing the first set to win her Round of 16 clash with a scoreline of 5-7, 6-2, 6-1. After her win, the youngster extended her grief on TikTok being banned for the United States of America. The American tennis star shared a heatfelt message on a TV camera, mourning the shut down of TikTok from USA.

The 20-year-old wrote on the camera “RIP TikTok USA” and drew a heartbreak emoji following her win over Belinda Bencic. It is to be noted that Gauff’s match finished just an hour after TikTok was removed from prominent app stores in the US. The popular social media platform was set to be banned under the US federal law that required its China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the platform or face a ban.

Watch Coco Gauff’s gesture after US removed TikTok:

Notably, this isn’t the first time she used the platform to express his views. At the French Open in June 2022, the 20-year-old wrote, “Peace. End gun violence” after mass shooting in the USA. Earlier during the AO 2025, Coco Gauff had expressed her opinions on the platform surviving in the States. “I feel this is the third or fourth time this has happened. This time it’s just like, ‘Whatever’. If I wake up and it doesn’t work, fine. I’m done wasting my time figuring out,” Gauff said.

“I see there’s a new app called RedNote that a lot of people are migrating over to. So I feel regardless, people are going to be fine because people are always going to migrate to another app,” the American star player had stated. Furthermore, it is to be seen that Coco Gauff progressed into her seventh Grand Slam quarterfinal. Only three women have reached more Grand Slam quaterfinals before turning 21 since 2000, including Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams and Kim Clijsters.

Additionally, the win for Gauff sets her quarterfinal clash against Spain’s Paula Badosa, who earlier defeated Serbia’s Olga Danilovic 6-1, 7-6 (7/2).