19-Year-Old Coco Gauff Wins First U.S. Open, First American Teen To Do So Since Serena In 1999
deadline.comCoco Gauff won the 2023 U.S. Open women’s singles title this afternoon, defeating Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-3, 6-2. The win marks the 19-year-old Gauff’s first Grand Slam championship and she pulled it off with a huge rally after losing the first set .
She becomes the 11th teenager to ever win a Grand Slam singles title and the first American teenager to win the U.S Open since Serena Williams won the tournament in 1999.
There’s another similarity. Gauff won 3 matches in the tournament after losing the first set and battled back to eventually become U.S.
Open Champion. According to ESPN, the only other woman to do that in the Open era was 17-year old Serena in 1999. Match point was an exchange of powerful shots followed by great returns, with Gauff finally sliding a backhand by Sabalenka and collapsing to the ground in joy.
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