Wild ride into happiness: Coco Gauff wins the French Open with « lots of love »

Coco Gauff (world ranking position: 2) grinning the lid of the wonderfully silver glittering coupe Suzanne Lenglen and linen in curious. However, this already wild day was no longer ready for the overjoyed French Open winner. « I don’t know what I did that I find out so much love here, » the 21-year-old called towards the Paris audience, while her heavily beaten opponent Aryna Sabalenka cried.

In one up and down of the feelings, Gauff prevailed in the final of Roland Garros 6: 7, 6: 2, 6: 4 against the world rankings from Belarus – 2.38 ‘The match had always new and insane twists in a total of 15 breaks and treacherous gusts. Ultimately, however, Gauff won the sandplace crown three years after the bitter final disposal against IGA Swiatek (PL).

« It feels great, it was hard and I tried to give myself the best chance and to fight every point. I’m just happy to have another title in my résumé, » said Gauff.

In front of 15,000 spectators on the Court Philippe-Chatrier she converted her second match ball. As in the US Open final 2023, Gauff turned the match against the previously favorite and subsequently inconsolable Sabalenka.

« It just hurts so much, » sobbed number one: « I have great two weeks behind me, and then I play so terrible tennis in the final under such terrible conditions. »

Aryna Sabalenka makes an enormous number of mistakes

After a myriad of errors – 70 from the unforced error category – Sabalenka easily missed her first Paris Triumph and her fourth major title. The 27-year-old had dethroned in the semi-finals in four-time four-time winner Swiatek thanks to physical superiority. In the final there was more than she was in demand, Sabalenka also failed due to her psyche.

Gauff did not really look warm, lost her second service game to zero and the third right afterwards. Sabalenka let Gauff come back into play, fabricated mistakes in a row. The spectators got really loud for the first time.

With the fourth game win in series Gauff equalized to 4: 4. Even after that, there were actually only two options in the rallies: Winner Sabalenka or error Sabalenka. The world ranking listen twice opened to the set win, had a set ball and still had to go to the tiebreak. There she then avoided a maximum of unnecessary deficit.

The favorite gave the sentence win, however, no security, she lost her serve three times, after around two hours of play everything was open again. Sabalenka lost his nerves, Zeterte, scolded, sweared. She made the 3: 3 equalization again, but immediately fluttered decisively again – and that was not just due to the wind.