So three weeks later I am here with this trophy right now. Two weeks ago I won a 1000 title and people were saying that was the biggest it was gonna get. Sabalenka had a superb start but could not keep the momentum going as unforced errors piled up and she closed her 2023 Grand Slam run, which included an Australian Open title and semifinals at Roland Garros and Wimbledon, on a disappointing note.Ī month ago I won a 500 title and people said I would stop at that. “I felt like I had a time limit on when I should win one, and if I won one after a certain age it wouldn’t be an achievement.”
I felt that at 15 I had to win a Slam at 15,” said Gauff. “People were putting a lot of pressure on me to win. The win delivered on years of enormous expectations hoisted upon the young American Gauff’s shoulders after she became the youngest ever to qualify for the Wimbledon main draw at 15 years old. Gauff, 19, fed off noisy local support as she fought back in the second set and kept the momentum going until the end of the battle, before falling to the court on Arthur Ashe Stadium as she clinched the title with a backhand winner. With the win, sixth seed Gauff became the first American to win a US Open singles title since Sloane Stephens in 2017. Gauff only needed 13 winners to accumulate 83 pointsġ8 Victories for Gauff in her last 19 matches. Teenager Coco Gauff mounted a fierce comeback to beat Belarusian second seed Aryna Sabalenka 2-6 6-3 6-2 in the US Open women’s final on Saturday night, claiming her first Grand Slam title and cementing her place in American tennis royalty.Ħ Gauff ended a six-year wait by becoming the first American to win a US Open singles title since Sloane Stephens in 2017ġ9 Unforced errors by Gauff compared to 46 by Sabalenka.
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