Coco Gauff has revealed that her US women’s tennis teammates have left her alone in the Olympic Village after they left for a hotel due to overcrowding in the official athlete accomodation.

Along with Jessica Pegula, Emma Navarro, Danielle Collins, and Desirae Krawczyk, Gauff spearheads the US tennis women’s team.

In the opening round of the 2024 Paris Olympics, Gauff will take on Ajla Tomljanovic of Australia. In doubles, she has already advanced to the second round after teaming up with Pegula to overcome Ellen Perez and Daria Saville of Australia.

Collins and Krawczyk will take on Maria Sakkari and Despina Papamichail of Greece in their opening round as the other combination to represent the United States in the doubles draw.

In the opening round of the singles, Pegula will play Austria’s Julia Grabher while Navarro will play Switzerland’s Viktoria Golubic. Collins defeated Lara Siegemund of Germany who retired at 6-3, 2-0 to see the American move on to the second round.

As the American women strive to increase their nation’s medal total at the Olympics, an unexpected development has surfaced.

Gauff disclosed on social media that there was overcrowding in the Olympic Village accommodations.

Coco Gauff said that five women were only spared one bathroom in a social media post that included a video of her room demonstrating overcrowding.

“10 girls, two bathrooms. #olympicvillage,” she captioned the video.

The World No 2 went on to reveal that her tennis teammates have all moved to a hotel somewhere else in Paris after finding the Village not up to scratch.

“All the tennis girls moved to a hotel except me. So now just five girls, two bathrooms,” Gauff said in a later update on the situation.

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Gauff has been honoured to represent her country at the Olympics after missing out on Tokyo due to a COVID-19 positive.

“Tennis and trophies mean a lot to me, but the impact that you leave on people means more,” Gauff says.

“I just want to know that I left my print on this world in some way, shape or form, outside of just the things that I do on the tennis court.

“At the end of the day, I’m more than a tennis person: I’m a daughter. I’m a friend. I’m a black woman; U.S. citizen,” she continues. “I’m all of these things before I’m a tennis player. So I think if I can affect the world in some type of way… hopefully I try to do it in a positive way. It would mean a lot more.”

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