Coco Gauff Watched “Love Island ”All Day After Returning from the Paris Olympics: 'Just Did Nothing' (Exclusive)

"I just literally like to do nothing," the tennis star exclusively tells PEOPLE

Coco Gauff appreciates the art of doing nothing, or as the kids call it these days — bed rotting.

The 20-year-old tennis tells PEOPLE at the launch of her collaboration with American Eagle that she unwinds by doing "nothing" when she's not competing in tournaments all over the world.

Of "those days" when she just needs to unplug and reset, Gauff says, "I just literally like to do nothing."

"Like after the Olympics," shares the tennis player, who says she spent her two days at home after the 2024 Paris Games with her younger brother, 11-year-old Cameron.

"Sunday, we literally just stayed at home and just did nothing. Just watched Love Island together," Gauff says, quickly adding, "Which, I don't know if I should watch Love Island with my 11-year-old brother, but he has older siblings, so I feel like that's just kind of how it goes."

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Questionable content aside, Gauff says her break of doing "nothing" with Cameron "just felt like such a restart" as she prepares for her first match of the 2024 US Open, against Varvara Gracheva of France on Monday, Aug. 26 in New York.

"I sometimes feel like even the self-care can just feel like too much work," she explains. "I just want to just do nothing and just sit and just rot, literally. So those were the best days, honestly, especially when you've been busy, and having someone to do it with was nice."

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And the tennis star has strong takes on the most recent season of Love Island. Gauff says she "liked" Kaylor — but admitted, "she did cry a lot," — and while she knows "a lot of people don't like the Casa girls," (where committed contestants are tempted with a new group of bombshells). Gauff says, "I mean, it kind of sucks to go on the show like that, but I feel like they handled it really well."

For her collaboration with American Eagle, Gauff designed an exclusive oversized jacket with the words, "Thank you to the people who didn't believe in me."

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Celebrating the new collaboration, Gauff told attendees at her release party that the saying is "something I feel like a lot of people can relate to, especially people at this table who have seen all the internet trolls or most people in their workplace not believing in them."

Gauff said that sometimes she'll "read stuff on purpose to just like, fuel me," and "use it as motivation" to prove her naysayers wrong.

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