Coco Gauff signs up for Italian Open doubles and will play with WTA player she's not paired with since 2023

Coco Gauff has confirmed she will play doubles at the Italian Open for the seventh year in a row.

The American is yet to win the Italian Open in singles or doubles, although she has reached the final twice in the latter.

Gauff has a difficult relationship on the clay, despite her impressive record on the surface, and she often uses doubles to tune up.

The star is set to play the Italian Open alongside a doubles partner she has played with since the 2023 season.

Coco Gauff’s doubles partner for the Italian Open confirmed

Gauff will play the Italian Open alongside Caty McNally this year, who she hasn’t been partnered with for nearly three years.

The last time she played with McNally was the Billie Jean King Cup in 2023, when the United States played Austria in a qualifying round.

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Gauff and McNally beat Melanie Klaffner and Sinja Kraus in straight sets to confirm a 4-0 victory for their nation.

McNally and Gauff have won three WTA Tour titles together in doubles, but they haven’t lifted a trophy since 2021.

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The pair won the Washington Open and the Luxembourg Open in 2019 and their last title came at Emilia-Romagna Open in 2021.

McNally will become Gauff’s sixth different doubles partners in seven years at the 2026 Italian Open.

Jessica Pegula is the only player to play doubles with Gauff in Rome more than once and they were successful in 2023.

The pair reached the final in 2023, but they lost out to Storm Hunter and Elise Mertens in the deciding match.

The American reached the final a year later with a different partner, this time with Australian star Erin Routliffe.

In 2025, Gauff formed a high-profile team with Alexandra Eala in Rome, and the pair reached the quarter-finals of the competition.

Gauff and Eala were defeated by eventual champions Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini, the latter of whom also lifted the title in the singles.