Coco Gauff won the first title of French Open after the Aryna Sabalenka combat floors | French Open 2025

In his half-decade which contributed to the highest level of his sport, Coco Gauff has built a waterproof reputation for its tenacity. Regardless of the importance of the occasion or the state of its strokes, it will fight with everything at its disposal until the very last point. More often than not, it will find a way to pass.

Through the net of the best player in the world in one of the most important moments of his career, Gauff showed the full extent of her grain and her sustainability when she traced a way to victory, holding hers in a captivating match between the two best players in the world to overthrow Aryna SabalenkaThe World No 1, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-4 and win its first French title.

Two years after also defeating Sabalenka in three sets To win his first major title At US Open 2023, Gauff, the world’s n ° 2, joined a group of distinguished players as a major multiple slam champion. She is the first American player to win the title French Open since Serena Williams in 2015 and the youngest to do so since Williams in 2002.

After Sabalenka spectacularly The Historical Victories of 26 IGA Swiatek’s Historical Victories in the semi-finals, the first two heads of series converged in the final. The rivalry between these two has its own story. The pair has already played many spectacular games in three sets, including this unforgettable fight in New York, when Sabalenka lost control of her emotions and Gauff produced an fearless performance to make her pay. The American now leads their head to head 6-5.

This time, Sabalenka opened the match in a wonderful form and she established an advance of 4-1 before collapsing. Throughout the first set, she struggled badly with the wind, her emotions and her number of errors not forced quickly. With the disarray of Sabalenka, a tenacious gauff continued each ball and gave nothing. Despite Sabalenka serving twice for the whole, they converged in an equality break, where Gauff forced himself inside the baseline and established an advance of 5-3. With the whole suspended by a thread, Sabalenka has completely locked himself up. She struck two winners in supreme backhand to level the break in equality at 5-5. She then showed the growing variation of her game by closing the whole with a perfectly measured drop shot followed by a soft volley of drop.

With the first meticulously secure set, it seemed likely that Sabalenka would relax and play more freely until the end. It seemed likely that she would win. Instead, the emotional energy she used seemed to leave her brand. While the Belarusian started the second completely flat set, Gauff accessed on occasion. In contrast striking with the anguish and the visible joy of Sabalenka after each bridge, Gauff died as she always does. She remained positive, encouraging her successful points while betraying a minimal emotion when she has vacillated. She focused on the continuation of each ball, extending each point and looking for opportunities to win. She approached each point with a flawless discipline.

For the first set of the match, while she was trying to neutralize the Sabalenka offensive dam, Gauff had to hunt as many balls as possible and get her opponent’s mistakes with her defense. Towards the end of the whole, however, it has gradually been able to impose itself. While the world n ° 1 has completely lost its way in set two, Gauff went on the front foot with its backhand and smothered the second service of its opponent. His forehand, once the scourge of his existence, has resisted with brio, his heavy topspin out of the Sabalenka strike area. More importantly, she continued to hold her nerve.

After shining the second set, Gauff took an advance of 3-1 and held a break in the service of Sabalenka. Despite the way in which she had struggled for most of the whole, Sabalenka lasted a reveacitor of backwards on Break Point and leveled the set at 3-3. Even with the best player in the world by breathing in the neck until the bitter end, Gauff showed its tenacity in the tightest moments when she immediately restored her break, then held out in a breath of breath to end the best victory of his career.