Tennis
French Open
11m ago
ROLAND GARROS, PARIS — Only in sports, and probably only in tennis, would a Black girl growing up in Florida and a White girl growing up 5,500 miles away in Minsk grow up to collide in Paris, chasing one another’s dreams.
And here they are, Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka, coming into Saturday’s French Open final as the two best players in the world. Both are the hunter and the hunted. Both have a hammer lock on what the other one wants a piece of. And roughly two hours of tennis between the most aggressive force and the most premier counterweight in the women’s game will serve as the next marker for whether either one can make any headway on their missions.
