Tennis-Gauff says she wasn't mad after calling 'foul' on USTA cartoon

Tennis - Australian Open - Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia - January 15, 2024 Coco Gauff of the U.S. reacts during her first round match against Slovakia's Anna Karolina Schmiedlova REUTERS/Edgar Su

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Coco Gauff denied on Monday that she was upset about a United States Tennis Association (USTA) social media post which depicted her and some of her fellow U.S. players as characters from a cartoon but said the image made them look "awful".

The USTA wished its seeded players well at the Australian Open by having them drawn in the style of the late 1990s Nickelodeon cartoon "The Wild Thornberrys".