The United States smiles again in tennis and does so again in its home Grand Slam. Cori Gauff, great banner of the future of women’s tennis, was proclaimed champion of the US Open 2023 after defeating (2-6, 6-3, 6-2) in an epic final against the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, who could not complete her double particular, since next week she will appear in the rankings as the new number one in the WTA. Gauff, just 19 years old, came from behind her rival with a great display and blew up the Arthur Ashe Stadium on the last point, in which she was confirmed as the winner in New York.
In a battle that lasted for two hours and three minutes, Gauff knew how to suffer at the beginning, in which she came to give up the first set clearly before a Sabalenka who rewarded her maturity over the nervousness shown by the local tennis player . However, the tables turned from then on and the player, still in her teens, grew unabated to win the following two sets and thus proclaim herself US Open champion to the delirium of the 23,000 spectators who filled the stands at the center of Flushing Meadows.
With a very complete game and with hardly any holes from the start of the second set, Coco Gauff raises her name to the select group of Grand Slam winners and does so as the youngest to win the US Open since Serena did so in 1999. Williams, with whom the most optimistic compare the player trained for a few months by the Spanish coach Pere Riba, one of the secrets of the explosion of the sensation on the women’s tour.
Coco Gauff won the US Open in epic fashion.
Match point 👇 pic.twitter.com/QMAwRod7B7
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 9, 2023
Gauff arrived at the US Open as one of the great favorites for the title, due to her great performance on the tour prior to the fourth Grand Slam of the season, but her youth and inexperience in the most select events put her ability to conquer a tournament in doubt. like the US Open, with the extra pressure that is added to any local player, from the stands. Hope, in this case, was a reality, and Coco was breaking down walls in the box until she also knocked down Sabalenka in a final that is already the history of the tournament and that allows us to open the idyll of what has been a great promise on the circuit for years to be considered, already in capital letters and without any hint of doubt, as a reality at the highest level.
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