Wimbledon 2024: 2nd seed Coco Gauff crashes out in straight-sets loss to Emma Navarro.

The killer shots and the champion’s mentality Coco Gauff had meticulously curated in her run to a maiden Grand Slam title at the U.S. Open went missing.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, worked for Coco Gauff on Sunday.

The killer shots and the champion’s mentality Gauff had meticulously curated during her run to a maiden Grand Slam title at the U.S. Open last year all went AWOL as her hopes of reaching the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the first time were brutally ended with a 6-4 6-3 mauling by Emma Navarro.

When the draw put second seed Gauff on a fourth-round collision course with fellow American Navarro, it almost seemed like a foregone conclusion which player would emerge triumphant.

After all Gauff had destroyed the opposition to reach the last 16 at the All England Club without dropping a set.

She was also the only player – man or woman – to make the semi-finals or better at the last three slams.

But all of that amounted to absolutely zilch on Sunday as Gauff resembled a lost soul on Centre Court and the torment running through her mind was clear for all to see when she shouted at her coach Brad Gilbert:

“Tell me something. You guys aren’t saying anything.”