PARIS (AP) — Some tennis players, like plenty of people in other walks of life, absolutely hate waking up early to go to work. Not so Coco Gauff , who is just fine with competing at any time of day.

Indeed, the 2023 U.S. Open champion prefers a morning match time to what she referred to as “the graveyard shift” — and at Grand Slam tournaments, there often are contests that stretch past midnight.

So at the French Open , Gauff probably didn't mind when she saw she was scheduled to face Australian Open champ Madison Keys at 11 a.m. local time (5 a.m. ET) in an all-American quarterfinal Wednesday.

“I’m one of those players that doesn’t care,” said Gauff, a 21-year-old from Florida who is the No. 2 seed in Paris. “I can get up early. I’m not slow to wake up. Once I get some food in m

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