The US Open winner, Coco Gauff, needs to be concerned about her form as she approaches the most important part of her season.

In the WTA 1000 event in Toronto, Gauff lost to fellow 20-year-old Diana 6-4, 6-1, and her troubling form slump shows no signs of abating.

Shnaider advanced to her first-ever quarterfinal at a WTA 1000 event after winning her first match against a top-10 opponent.

The news is not good for Gauff, who has had a string of dismal losses since falling to eventual champion Iga Swiatek in the French Open semi-finals in June.

She lost to fellow American Emma Navaro in an unexpected Wimbledon last-16 match, and in another unexpected outcome, she was defeated by Donna Vekic in the Olympics.

Though Gauff would have hoped that playing on her preferred hard courts in North America would spark her comeback, the loss to Shnaider was the latest in an alarming run of bad luck.

With the 3,000 ranking points she earned in those two competitions on the line, she is currently getting ready to defend her championships in the US Open and in Cincinnati.

If Aryna Sabalenka keeps improving in Toronto, Gauff will drop back down to No. 3 in the WTA Rankings, but if she can’t seem to win matches, her ranking drop could be even more severe.

After the final major of 2024, Gauff might slip out of the top five of the WTA Rankings due to early losses in Cincinnati and at the US Open in New York. Her slide might be even more severe if some of her top 10 competitors win well in the next two tournaments.

Gauff acknowledged that it could have been a mistake to fly back from France to play in Toronto, but she appears less bothered about her performance than some of her detractors. Gauff was also picked as one of Team USA’s Olympic flag carriers.

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“There are moments when I wonder if I should have participated or not,” she remarked following the loss against Shnaider.

Ultimately, though, I wanted to put myself to the test to see how I would fare in the face of mild physical and mental exhaustion.

“Although I didn’t have big hopes going into the competition, even if I lost, I wish I could have competed better today. I believe I did not compete well.

Gauff added that despite her length on the WTA Tour, she is still only 20 years old, and that she is still on a steep learning curve.

“I think people, especially fans of the sport, tend to forget you’re still developing when you have success when you’re young,” Gauff continued.

“More often than not, the reasons why certain younger girls might not perform as well as they get older are psychological in nature. All in all, I’m simply attempting to put things in perspective, and I have to say that I learned a lot from the Olympics.

When you are young, sometimes all you want is for everything to happen right away. Many of them are in the 24-to 27-year-old bracket, so I suppose that occasionally puts things in perspective. It seems like all I had to do was talk to them, listen to their tales, and trust in my training and the journey itself.

“They’re all so good that they all did well when they were young.” In a few years, your game will reach its definitive shape. I aspire to be there by the time I’m twenty-four.