Related items

• Gauff tempers Canadian Open expectations after Paris Olympics

  Coco Gauff is not expecting to win the Canadian Open as she manages the transition from clay to hard courts following the Olympics. 

  Gauff fell short of a medal last month, losing to Donna Vekic in the singles while bowing out of the mixed and women's doubles with Jessica Pegula and Taylor Fritz. 

  The world number two is one of the headline names at the WTA event in Toronto after a number of high-profile players, including world number one Iga Swiatek and Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova, dropped out.

  Her opening game of the tournament sees her face Yafan Wang, however, Gauff has tempered expectations as she prepares to defend her US Open crown at Flushing Meadows.

  "I am not going into this expecting to win or anything. That would be great and it's the goal, but being realistic I was on clay three days ago," Gauff said. 

  "I'm just trying to use this to see where I am and what I need to do to get ready for the US Open."

  After her frustration in Paris, Gauff will have to wait another four years to win an Olympic medal, but has the comfort of the next Games being held on home soil in Los Angeles.  

  And despite suffering disappointment in all three Olympic disciplines (singles, doubles and mixed doubles) this year at Roland-Garros, the American put her name forward to compete across the board again in 2028. 

  "I would still do all three [events] again if that’s a possibility in '28," Gauff said. 

  "I mean it's four years from now, I'll be 24, so I will still be on the healthier and younger side of things, and especially if the draw size for mixed is that small, I feel like that's one everyone wants to play.

  "I had a great experience, from not being able to go to Tokyo to being able to go here, I just feel like LA, I'll hopefully be on the podium.

  "I just feel like that's what my life consists of, having a disappointing result and then the next time is the best thing in the world."

• USA 'can't be lulled to sleep' by previous wins over Serbia

  Steve Kerr warned the United States must not "get lulled to sleep" by the fact they have already beaten Serbia twice recently.

  The USA cruised past Brazil to reach the semi-finals of the Olympics, and Nikola Jokic's Serbia are next up.

  Serbia have already faced the USA in the group stage, with the four-time reigning Olympic champions winning 110-84.

  The USA also beat Serbia by 26 points in a warm-up match prior to the Games, but Kerr is taking nothing for granted ahead of Thursday's clash.

  He said: "We can't get lulled to sleep because we beat them twice.

  "We have to be prepared for their best effort. We've got to think about what they are going to do differently.

  "Jokic, I guess he could play 40 minutes. What else do they have up their sleeve?"

  It was a sentiment echoed by LeBron James.

  "Every game is its own test. No matter what happened in the first two, it's about what goes down Thursday night," he said.

  "So we need to lock in our film session, lock in during the day on Thursday, and then come out and be ready to go."

  Jokic inspired Serbia to an Olympic-record comeback against Australia in the quarters.

  How Serbia plan to manage Jokic's minutes is an intriguing question, but Joel Embiid is setting himself up to face the reigning NBA MVP for over 40 minutes.

  "I guess we'll be ready for that," said Embiid.

  "If that's what they think they have to do to try to beat us, then they won't hesitate to do that."

• 'I'll remember it for a long time' - Emotional Scheffler revels in Olympic gold medal win

  An emotional Scottie Scheffler says he will remember his gold medal win "for a long time" having come from behind with a record-equalling final round to win at the Olympics.

  The American started four strokes behind co-leaders Jon Rahm and Xander Schauffele on Sunday but produced a superb nine-under 62 to pip Great Britain's Tommy Fleetwood to the top of the leaderboard by one stroke as he finished on 19 under at Le Golf National.

  It has been a banner year for the world number one, who won his second Masters title in April before claiming a first-ever medal at the Olympics.

  Scheffler was emotional on the podium and expressed his pride at being able to add another gold medal to the United States' medal tally at the Paris Games.

  "I get emotional in general. Usually, I have a bit more time after a tournament to kind of reflect and compose myself, but with this one, you kind of go from one thing to the next," Scheffler told NBC.

  "You don't really reflect until you're standing up there on the podium. That was a pretty special moment I'll remember for a long time: standing up there on the podium with the gold medal around my neck.

  "It's been a long week. It's been a challenging week. I played some great golf today, and I'm proud to be going home with a medal."

  Despite his impressive score, it did not always look like Scheffler would have a chance of finishing on the podium, with Rahm pulling ahead, only to suffer a collapse on the back nine to slip out of contention.

  The 28-year-old made six birdies on the back nine, including four in a row after a slightly slow start on the first half of the course.

  "I felt good most of the day," Scheffler added. "I felt like I was doing a lot of good things, and the front nine, I hit a bit of a cold stretch on 4 through 9 where I wasn't able to make any birdies; and I felt like I had what was a lot of good putts and felt like what I felt was good putts and didn't go in.

  "[Caddie] Teddy [Scott] did a really good job of helping me stay patient out there, and did a good job of reading the greens, as well, and we were able to get hot there on the back nine and move our way up the leaderboard."