Coco Gauff shares happy news about her first Thanksgiving in her new home

Coco Gauff is hosting her first Thanksgiving party. The 20-year-old tennis star has just moved into her new home in Florida, is living alone for the first time and started her vacation early. On November 25, Gauff hosted a Friendsgiving with some of her closest friends and cousins and shared some updates on social media.

Gauff announced that everyone would be contributing food to the party and revealed that she had baked a sweet potato cake.

“First time making sweet potato pie,” she wrote on social media. “I’ll always be the older cousin who invites herself to TikTok.”

She shared that her guests contributed with various delicious dishes including “4 breads, 2 regular breads, a chocolate chip bread and a walnut banana bread.”

This is the second year Gauff has documented her Thanksgiving cooking. Last year she revealed she failed at baking banana bread.

“The bananas were too ripe because you should wait,” she said. “I think I waited too long, so I threw it away.”

“I tried to freestyle it without it and it turned out terrible. I tried to make it for my fitness trainer for his birthday, but when I tested it I thought, ‘I can’t give this to him.’ I was really disappointed because banana bread is what I’m good at. I just thought I was good enough to maybe leave out a few ingredients.

Coco Gauff’s fantastic 2024 season

Coco Gauff’s career continues to blossom. This year, she capped her season with an incredible performance, becoming the youngest WTA Finals winner since Maria Sharapova in 2004. Gauff’s victory gave her the highest individual prize in WTA history: $4.8 million.

When asked if she broke the record as the youngest player, Gauff said: “I asked (about the record) as soon as I got the match,” she said via WTA.

“I asked, ‘Was that the youngest? It must be some kind of record.’ I asked the Sky team for the answer. They didn’t have it, but that’s good to know.

She then shared that she was born in 2004 and felt a certain poetry and meaning in the coincidence. “It was 2004. The year I was born was the last time, so I’ve basically never seen it in my life. That’s pretty cool. It just goes to show that age is a number in both directions, old or young.”