Gauff

Gauff wants privacy: hating to lose

At Australia’s Open, she’d use

Up a racket offstage

For a moment of rage—

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Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His poems have appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, the Creativity Webzine, Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Grand Little Things, Light, Lighten Up Online, the New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, WestWard Quarterly and other journals. The poem was prompted by the Sky News story “Coco Gauff condemns tennis’s lack of privacy after she’s caught on camera smashing a racket.”