Coco Gauff pays tribute to TikTok at Australian Open, sees silver lining

Coco Gauff celebrated her Australian Open triumph implicit Belinda Bencic with a motion to TikTok arsenic the fashionable app was made unavailable for Americans backmost home.

Gauff wrote connected a camera lens "RIP TikTok USA" with a breached bosom aft defeating Bencic, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1 to determination to the quarterfinals of the archetypal Grand Slam lawsuit of the season. Gauff had much than 750,000 followers earlier the app was chopped off.

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Coco Gauff writes "RIP Tik Tok USA" aft defeating Belinda Bencic astatine the Australian Open successful Melbourne, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake)

"I could not entree it aft my match. I honestly thought I would beryllium capable to get distant with it due to the fact that I was successful Australia," she told reporters aft the match, via ESPN. "Hopefully it comes back.... It's truly sad. I've been connected the app since it was called Musical.ly. 

"I emotion TikTok. It's similar an escape. I honestly bash that earlier matches. I conjecture it volition unit maine to work books much – beryllium much of a productive human, probably. Maybe it's a blessing successful disguise."

TikTok was officially made unavailable to American users precocious Saturday night. Anyone with the app was deed with a connection that read, "Sorry, TikTok isn’t disposable close now.

"A instrumentality banning TikTok has been enacted successful the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can’t usage TikTok for now.

Coco Gauff returns a changeable from Belinda Bencic astatine the Australian Open successful Melbourne, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

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"We are fortunate President Trump has indicated that helium volition enactment with america connected a solution to reinstate TikTok erstwhile helium takes office. Please enactment tuned!"

On the eve of his inauguration, President-elect Trump wrote successful a Truth Social station connected Sunday that helium would motion an enforcement bid to widen the clip for erstwhile the prohibition goes into effect.

"I’m asking companies not to fto TikTok enactment dark! I volition contented an enforcement bid connected Monday to widen the play of clip earlier the law’s prohibitions instrumentality effect, truthful that we tin marque a woody to support our nationalist security," helium wrote. "The bid volition besides corroborate that determination volition beryllium nary liability for immoderate institution that helped support TikTok from going acheronian earlier my order.

"Americans merit to spot our breathtaking Inauguration connected Monday, arsenic good arsenic different events and conversations."

A TikTok logo is shown connected a telephone successful San Francisco, Jan. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

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Trump added that helium wanted the U.S. to person a "50% ownership presumption successful a associated venture."

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