The 21-year-old American Coco Gauff tennis player defeated Belarusa Aryna Sabalenka on Saturday (7) 2 sets to 1 (6/7 (5), 6/2 and 6/4) and won her first title in the clay of Roland Garros in the French capital.
The long-awaited 2h38 duel in which the ranking vice-leader broke the leader represented the second title of Grand Slam in Simples from Delray Beach’s natural tennis player in Florida-she already won the US Open in 2023 when she was only 19, beating Sabalenka herself at the time.
Gauff had also been a finalist at Roland Garros’ own tournament in 2022, when he got the vice in the end against Polish Iga świątek.
She is the first tennis player in the United States to triumph in Roland Garros since 2015, when Serena Williams won for the third time on French clay. Gauff also became the youngest American to win the tournament since the first title of Roland Garros de Serena Williams in 2002.
With the 2,000 points won, the tennis player maintains the runner-up in the ranking and will rise from Thursday to second position in the WTA FINISE Race in Riyadh. The expected awards to the champion is 2.55 million euros (R $ 16.2 million) and 1.275 million euros for the deputy (R $ 8.1 million).
