Coco Gauff Is Roland Garros Champion. Now For Wimbledon 2025!
Roland Garros
June 7, 2025
Coco Gauff planted her face in the Parisian clay – and caressed it like a soft feather bed. With victory came an overwhelming sense of peace.
Will there be a similar sensation at Wimbledon 2025 for Coco Gauff? She is already so adored there.
The cool American had adapted far better to swirling winds and churning nerves on Philippe-Chatrier.
In stark contrast Aryna Sabalenka had failed completely to accept the same environment and psychological challenges.
The favourite beat herself – and only had herself to blame for that sinking feeling.
Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka will battle for glory at Wimbledon 2025 soon. But their moods couldn’t have been more different in Paris.
There was only one winner of the mind games in the French capital. Gauff remained perfectly focused throughout.
Coco consoled Sabalenka with typical compassion. Then she raced up into the stands to see her ecstatic parents.
They all jumped for joy as though this was the first time Coco had ever tasted tennis glory anywhere.
But Gauff knew what it was like to lose a final here. She felt she had disappointed those who had come to see her three years ago. And some of her closest supporters are no longer with us.
This was her moment at last. This was her Parisian dream fulfilled. This was for all her loved ones and her dedicated team.
Coco could be kissing the manicured grass of Centre Court next month too. All she has to do is maintain this form for Wimbledon 2025.
And why not? The surface will be faster. But Gauff’s defence is incredible. Her mental strength is second to none.
Coco has been winning on Centre Court since she was fifteen years old. The Wimbledon 2025 title is not beyond her.
In France Gauff claimed her reward for staying cool under fire. She was 1-4 and 0-40 down in the first. She might have been blown away completely.
Instead Coco fought back hard and seemed on the verge of turning the tables. Then she temporarily wasted her comeback.
Leading 3-0 in the breaker, Gauff let it all slip away. She might have crumbled from there. But something stubbornly self-assured was written into the face of the outspoken superstar.
Coco came back fighting in the second with fresh passion. And she refused to hand over that momentum – even when she faltered on the home straight in the third.
Gauff is famous for her never-say-die attitude. It’s why we all admired her as a teenager.
The 6-7 (5-7), 6-2, 6-4 score-line told the story of an unlikely Grand Slam triumph. But it also hinted at the way Sabalenka had beaten herself.
She committed no fewer than seventy unforced errors. You can’t win a title like that. Gauff only committed fifteen in the last two sets.
Aryna had dished out a bagel to the great Iga Swiatek in her previous match. That didn’t scare a young woman as determined as Coco Gauff.
Sabalenka was in tears as she took the microphone at the end. She still seemed to be blaming the conditions instead of her own questionable mentality.
‘This hurts so much. I played great tennis all fortnight. But in these terrible conditions I played terrible tennis.
‘Congrats Coco. You played better tennis than me in these conditions. Congratulations on your second Grand Slam. You are a fighter.
‘Thank you to my team and I’m sorry for this terrible final. As always I will come back stronger.’
You can’t rule out Aryna Sabalenka at Wimbledon 2025. She has every chance to bounce back in style there.
Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka might well clash again at the All England Club.
Coco doesn’t need to think about those possibilities just yet. She can enjoy her moment.
And Sabalenka might also learn a lesson from Coco’s attitude. Gauff explained: ‘This feels great. I got on court and knew it was going to be windy and I thought: “it’s going to be one of those matches.”
‘I made up my mind to play using the conditions as best I could. The crowd really helped me today.
‘I don’t know what I do to deserve so much love from the French crowd. But merci beaucoup.
‘Honestly I didn’t think I could do it. But I must have been lying to myself because here I am. Thank you Paris.’
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