‘Spooky Szn’ Sparks Joy for Coco Gauff as She Soaks in Much-Needed Break From Intense Tennis Grind With Family and Friends

If it were up to Coco Gauff, every day would be Halloween! The young American tennis sensation might have had a challenging season, but that hasn’t dampened her spirit and Gauff refuses to let the setbacks get to her. Instead, she’s embracing her off-court passions, and Halloween is clearly at the top of that list!

The American tennis sensation has expressed time and again her fondness for the Spooky season. And with Halloween around the corner, Gauff is failing to control her excitement. The star player took to her Instagram story on Monday to share pictures from an outing as she began the celebrations for what may be perfectly called her favorite time of the year. 

In a string of stories that Gauff shared, she can be seen enjoying the Halloween celebrations. Posting a video of a spooky doll, which transitions its expressions from being friendly to being terrifying, Gauff wrote, “Why she switch up on me like that? Like I thought we were friends again!?” In the subsequent story, she shared a picture of herself from outside a place that read “Halloween Horror Nights.” Captioning the story, the star player wrote, “Spooky szn is the best time of the year.” With that, her stories on her social media continued. 

Gauff also shared a post on her story where she can be seen wearing a floral outfit as she posed for the camera. “The theme was 70s,” she wrote about her attire. The star player has struggled significantly in her professional endeavors. She clinched two titles this season at the ASB Classic and the China Open, but she seems to let nothing come in the way of her love for the Spooky season. Interestingly, this is not the first time when the star player has expressed her love for the season or has flaunted her Halloween-special attire. 

Ahead of the WTA finals last year, Coco Gauff opened up on her passion for Halloween in a pre-tournament conference. “I’ve always been passionate about Halloween since I was a kid. I always loved to dress up. I would do it, like, year-round. I’ve always talked about wanting to go to [do] cosplay, the conventions, and all of that.” Gauff said in Cancun. In 2021, Gauff was also seen dressing up as Velma, which she considers as one of her favorite efforts. Her passion for Halloween was witnessed in the subsequent years as well. 

In 2022, Coco touched upon her inner mystic self and dressed as Raven from “Teen Titans.” She also tried her hands at being a movie villain in 2023 and took the internet by storm. But while Gauff is extremely enthusiastic about the spooky season, her family is not much of a fan of Halloween. 

When Coco Gauff revealed forcing her family to dress up for Halloween

Coco Gauff’s passion for style has often come to light. Be it dazzling up off-court events or dressing up for Halloween, the star player has never shied away from expressing herself. However, she revealed that her family is not as excited as her when it comes to Halloween, and she often ends up forcing them to dress up for the season. 

Speaking in the same interview ahead of the WTA Finals last year, Gauff revealed, “With my family, honestly only three members of my family, or two, one actually, Cameron is the only one who is really keen to doing it. The rest I just kind of force to do it.” Last year, she claimed that her family members were not even ready for basic dress-up. 

“We have some funny videos of us trying to get pictures together. My dad is fed up. Codey is fed up. They don’t care about Halloween that much, but they do it for me. You can see their costumes are the least effort amount. This year they just had to put on a mask,” Gauff shared. For now, it would be interesting to see which costume Coco Gauff and her family pick to send player’s fandom into a frenzy.