Brad Gilbert on Coco Gauff: If she were a stock, you'd still put a buy rating on it

>>> OKAY. LET'S TALK TENNIS. THE LATEST COMING OUT OF THE U.S. OPEN TENNIS TOURNAMENT, IN INVESTMENTS ALSO FROM BRAD GILBERT, FORMER PRO TENNIS PLAYER, NOW TENNIS COACH. YOU'VE BEEN A LONG TIME FRIEND OF THE SHOW. YOU'VE BEEN -- WHAT IS YOUR LONGEST HOLDING POSITION? YOU'VE BEEN -- MICROSOFT? >> STILL MICROSOFT. I TELL MY KIDS, IT IS THE MODERN BANK, BECAUSE IF YOU PUT YOUR MONEY IN THE BANK, YOU GET ZERO INTEREST. IF YOU PUT YOUR MONEY IN MICROSOFT, YOU'RE DOING OKAY. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE DIVIDENDS BE MORE THAN 3% THOUGH. >> OVER TIME, MICROSOFT IS -- >> THAT'S THE WAY TO GO. AT LEAST FOR THE MOMENT. >> WE'LL GET BACK TO STOCKS A LITTLE WHILE. IT HAS GOT TO -- JUST SO YOU KNOW, MARKET CAPITAL, OVER A BILLION DOLLARS IF YOU -- AND MORE THAN -- YOU'VE GOT SOME STOCKS THAT YOU'VE COME UP FOR THAT HAVE 12 LETTERS IN THE SYMBOL AND YOU HAVE TO LOOK UP SOMETHING. NOT EVEN THE PINK PAGES, CHARTREUSE PAGES. >> BACK IN THE DAY, YOU HAVE TO LOOK IN THE NEWSPAPER TO SEE IT. NOW YOU GO TO YOUR APP AND THINGS ARE A LITTLE BIT EASIER. >> A BILLION DOLLARS. NOT A BILLION YUAN, NONE OF THAT, ALL RIGHT. LET'S TALK ABOUT -- I GUESS WE'LL TALK ABOUT COCO. I'VE KNOWN YOU LONG ENOUGH, USED TO SIT IN THE BOX YOU, WITH ANDRE, WITH ANDY. I'M SURPRISED YOU HAVE ANY FINGERNAILS. YOU ARE MORE NERVOUS THAN THE PLAYERS WHEN YOU'RE DOING IT. NO? >> YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY YOU HEARD FOR YOUR PLAYERS, YOU WANT THE BEST, AND SOMETIMES THINGS DON'T GO THE WAY YOU WANT, BUT, YOU KNOW, I TRY NOT TO GET TOO ELATED WHEN MY PLAYER IS DOING WELL AND THEN YOU TRY NOT TO GET TOO DOWN. SOMETIMES THEY CATCH YOU WITH YOUR HEAD DOWN A LITTLE BIT. DIDN'T GO AS WELL HERE AS WE WOULD LIKE, BUT, YOU KNOW, THE SUN COMES UP THE NEXT DAY. AND THEN YOU GOT TO BE POSITIVE AND HOPEFULLY THINGS WILL GET BETTER. >> IT IS RELATIONSHIPS DON'T LAST FOREVER. A LOT OF TIMES. IS THIS -- HOW IS IT GOING WITH COCO RIGHT NOW, WOULD YOU SAY? >> YOU KNOW, IT HAS BEEN A GOOD 14 MONTHS. SHE'S ACCOMPLISHED A LOT. AND THE GREAT THING IS SHE HAS HUGE UPSIDE AT 20. AND IF SHE WAS A STOCK YOU STILL PUT A BUY RATING ON HER. SHE'S A GREAT KID. SHE WORKS HARD. AND GOOD THINGS WILL HAPPEN FOR HER. UNFORTUNATELY, IT WASN'T A GREAT TOURNAMENT FOR HER. BUT THE PLAYER THAT BEAT HER, NAVARRO, IS PLAYING GREAT TENNIS, SHE'S IN THE SEMIS, WHO KNOWS. MAYBE SHE GOT A LEGITIMATE SHOT TO WIN IT. WE HAVE PEGULA LEFT. ON THE MEN'S SIDE, THIS IS THE FIRST ALL AMERICAN SEMI SINCE 2005, ANDRE AGASSI BEAT GINIPRI. SO WE HAVE TIAFOE VERSUS FRITZ. THE FIRST TIME AN AMERICAN MAN IS IN A SLAM FINAL SINCE 2009. >> DO YOU THINK THE OLYMPICS WAS A PROBLEM FOR THE OPEN THIS YEAR? >> THE OLYMPICS? >> THE OLYMPICS, THE FACT THAT ALL OF THESE GUYS -- BY THE WAY, WHO WERE ALL THE MEDAL WINNERS, BASICALLY ALL OUT OF THE OPEN. >> FOUR YEARS -- >> DID THEY GET TIRED? >> EVERY FOUR YEARS WE HAVE THE SAME ISSUE. AND OBVIOUSLY THE TOUGHEST PART IS THE SWITCHING OF THE SURFACE. WE WENT FROM GRASS AT WIMBLEDON, BACK TO -- WELL, FIRST, WE WENT FROM THE CLAY AT ROLAND GARROS, BACK TO GRASS, BACK TO CLAY, AND THE QUICK TURN AROUND. SO, NORMALLY EVERY FOUR YEARS THE OLYMPICS IS NOT VERY FAR AWAY FROM THE U.S. OPEN. THE CHANGING OF THE SURFACE MADE IT A LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT. I MEAN, LISTEN, WHAT ABOUT 2021? WE STILL CALLED IT THE '20 OLYMPICS. WE CAME FROM TOKYO. IT WAS STILL

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