Key Factors
- Coco Gauff has been topped US Open champion.
- She’s the primary teen to play within the event’s last since 2001.
- Gauff defeated Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka.
American tennis has topped a brand new queen and US Open champion as Coco Gauff beat Aryna Sabalenka within the Flushing Meadows last to assert her first grand slam title and ascend the throne left vacant by Serena Williams.
The primary teenager to play in a US Open last since Serena in 2001 there was symmetry to the second as Gauff rallied to beat the second seeded Belarusian 2-6 6-3 6-2 and finish a six-year barren stretch for American tennis followers.
“I’m so joyful I might make this nation proud,” Gauff stated.
American ladies have been on the rise in recent times shifting into the highest 10 and profitable tournaments however since Serena Williams performed her final match on Arthur Ashe in 2022 the US has been and not using a normal bearer – till now.
Who’s tennis star Coco Gauff?
Gauff, who as a younger lady dreamed of turning into the subsequent Serena, is now simply that – the undisputed face of US tennis with many predicting she will be able to turn into the world’s top-ranked participant with a trophy cupboard full of grand slam titles.
“Congratulations to US Open champion, @CocoGauff! We could not be prouder of you on and off the court docket – and we all know one of the best is but to return,” former US president Barack Obama posted on social media.
Nonetheless simply 19-years-old, Gauff has matured below an unforgiving sporting highlight.
The completed product was on show on Saturday as she defused Sabalenka’s energy with pace and tenacity earlier than acknowledging her success with grace.
“That little lady, she had the dream – however I do not know if she totally believed it,” Gauff stated.
“As you grow old generally it could fiddle away. I’d inform her, ‘Do not lose that dream’.”
Instantly after her win, Gauff’s first response after lifting herself off the court docket and wiping away tears of pleasure was to go looking the stands for her dad and mom, who used to convey her to New York as a younger lady to observe her idols on the identical court docket.
Gauff burst into tears as her win was sealed. Supply: AAP / SIPA
The US Open this 12 months celebrated Billie Jean King and the fiftieth anniversary of the combat for equal pay, with Gauff playfully acknowledging the wrestle when accepting the trophy.
“Thanks Billie Jean for combating for this,” stated Gauff waving a $US3 million ($A4.7 million) winner’s cheque.
Gauff has lengthy been tipped for greatness.
A prime junior she burst onto the world scene as a 15-year-old, beating one other of her idols Venus Williams at Wimbledon in 2019.
Final 12 months she made her grand slam breakthrough, reaching the ultimate of the French Open however shedding. At this 12 months’s Wimbledon she hit a bump with a primary spherical loss that left her feeling the dream had ended.
Since that Wimbledon loss Gauff has gained 18 of 19 matches and gained the US Open, Cincinnati Open and Washington.
“Thanks to the individuals who did not imagine in me,” she advised a packed Arthur Ashe Stadium on Saturday.
“A month in the past, I gained a 500 (stage) title and folks stated I’d cease at that.
“Two weeks in the past, I gained a 1000 title and folks have been saying that was the most important it was going to get … (however) I am right here with this trophy proper now.
“To those that thought they have been placing water on my fireplace you have been actually including gasoline to it and now I’m burning so vivid.”
