Coco Gauff secured her place in the Roland Garros quarter-finals with a straight-sets victory, an achievement somewhat overshadowed by her pre-match faux pas of neglecting to bring her racquet, a gaffe that elicited sardonic banter from compatriot and fellow quarter-finalist Frances Tiafoe, who himself is no stranger to such oversights. This prompted Tiafoe's jocular appellation of Gauff as "Matronly," to which she retorted with a wry observation on the exigencies of maturity demanded by the professional tennis circuit, confessing a certain linguistic discomfiture in formulating an appropriately acerbic rejoinder to Tiafoe's ribbing; notwithstanding this minor imbroglio, Gauff is now poised to contest an all-American quarter-final against Madison Keys on Wednesday, a match imbued with the subtext of Gauff's perceived precocity – a reputation forged by her record-breaking Wimbledon debut at 15 and her subsequent maiden Grand Slam triumph at the tender age of 19.