“The standard is always going to be a Grand Slam champion,” said Martin Blackman, the head of the U.S. Tennis Association’s player development program since 2015.
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I was bouncing around,” Blackman said during an evening rain delay Thursday, before heading back out to watch 18-year-old American Coco Gauff beat Mihaela Buzarnescu 6-2, 6-3 on Centre Court.
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