Despite an earlier *faux pas* involving the forgotten racquet, Coco Gauff cemented her place in the French Open quarter-finals with a straight-sets victory, a blunder that sparked some *esprit de corps* between her and fellow American, and fellow Roland Garros quarter-finalist, Frances Tiafoe, who had previously committed a similar oversight. Tiafoe playfully dubbed Gauff a "grown woman," a jibe to which Gauff countered that professional tennis demands a precocious maturity, conceding that she had no riposte to Tiafoe’s jest. This momentary levity notwithstanding, Gauff is now poised for an all-American clash against Madison Keys in Wednesday’s quarter-final, a contest rendered perhaps inevitable by a narrative arc wherein Gauff, owing to her precocious success on the tennis circuit – including her Wimbledon breakthrough at 15 and maiden Grand Slam title at 19 – is frequently and somewhat ironically perceived as a *femme d'un certain âge*.