Coco Gauff doesn’t want the ‘cowardly’ way out. She wants Iga Swiatek.

PARIS — The question seems as old as either dirt or time, as if a reporter must have asked it to an athlete almost right after the first humans turned up 200,000 years ago: Whom would you rather play? Which of the two sides of an ongoing or upcoming match would you prefer to face in the next round?