Securing her berth in the Roland Garros quarter-finals with a straight-sets victory, Coco Gauff paradoxically belied an earlier *faux pas* – the inadvertent omission of her racquets from a prior match – an oversight that instigated a collegial exchange with fellow American and Roland Garros quarter-finalist, Frances Tiafoe, who himself had been similarly afflicted; Tiafoe's jocular appellation of Gauff as "Mrs. Mature" elicited from her a rejoinder referencing the precocious maturity demanded by the exigencies of professional tennis, with Gauff conceding the paucity of her riposte to Tiafoe's teasing, notwithstanding which she is now slated to contend with Madison Keys in an all-American quarter-final showdown on Wednesday, further underscoring the prevalent perception of Gauff's maturity, a consequence of her early tennisistic successes, notably her Wimbledon debut at fifteen and her subsequent attainment of a Grand Slam title at nineteen.