Coco Gauff, queen of serenity and Roland-Garros

Coco Gauff started the 2025 edition of Roland-Garros with a laugh, realizing that she had entered the field without her rackets during the first round. Two weeks later, she kept her smile. But the American finds herself this time with a surplus of luggage. Saturday, June 7, she left the court Philippe-Chatrier with the bulky Suzanne-Lenglen cup under the arm, following her victory over the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka in the final (6-7, 6-2, 6-4).

Upon end of the world’s number 1, Coco Gauff adds a second Grand Chelem title to her trophy cabinet, which already had the US Open 2023. Above all, she continued her growth curve at the very place where she had signed a painful birth certificate in 2022. For her initiation to these altitudes, she had been shipped in the final by the Polish Iga SwiTek (1-6 3-6). “I was extremely stressed. I put myself a lot of pressure, I left beaten in advance ”she recognized.

Three years later, it was no longer quite the same player who entered the central court. At 21, Coco Gauff is now an athlete who counts on the circuit, a world number 2 capable of accumulating success and titles on all surfaces. The American now knows how to deal with the pressure; And that which was considered across the Atlantic, from adolescence, as the heiress of Serena Williams never failed.

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