As Rogers did this Friday against Serena Williams, he also had to come back to beat the young Coco Gauff. The earliest tennis player to play a Grand Slam suffered in her match against Tunisian Ons Jabeur. Gauff began by giving up the first set by a tight 6-4, losing his second serve and being unable to find a break. In the second set, the American came to be on the ropes, since she lost two serves in a row, but a great final push allowed Gauff to win the set 6-4.
Already in the third set the story of the match changed. Jabeur, number 39 in the world, began to show fatigue in a meeting that lasted until two hours, and did not present a battle in the final sleeve, that Gauff took by a convincing 6-1. His compatriot Jennifer Bardy is already waiting in the semis, who beat the Czech Bouzkova (6-1 and 6-2).
With this victory and, at the very least, the semifinals in Lexington, Coco will return to the top 50 – in February of this year it reached 49th place and is currently 53rd in the world -, and it will also be your best historical position. To better understand the great achievements that Gauff is achieving in such a premature way, there is a fact that clarifies everything: at 16 years and 5 months, Coco is not only the youngest among the 50 best tennis players in the world, but it is also the youngest among the top 500 classified. Almost nothing for a girl who aims to do great things in world tennis