American wins epic final battle 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-4
Gauff wins second slam after 2023 US Open title
In her half-decade competing at the highest level of her sport, Coco Gauff has built an impermeable reputation for her toughness. No matter the significance of the occasion or the state of her strokes, she will fight with everything at her disposal until the very last point. More often than not, she will find a way through.
Across the net from the best player in the world in one of the most important moments of her career, Gauff showed the full breadth of her grit and durability as she somehow plotted a path to victory, holding her own in a gripping match between the two best players in the world to topple Aryna Sabalenka, the world No 1, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-4 and win her first French Open title.
Two years after also defeating Sabalenka in three sets to win her first major title at the 2023 US Open, Gauff, the world No 2, has joined a distinguished group of players as a multiple grand slam champion. She is the first American player to win the French Open title since Serena Williams in 2015 and the youngest to do so since Williams in 2002.
