{"id":43182,"date":"2025-06-06T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T07:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=43182"},"modified":"2025-06-06T05:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:08:20","slug":"american-tennis-star-coco-gauff-reaches-french-open-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=43182","title":{"rendered":"American tennis star Coco Gauff reaches French Open final"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Coco Gauff<\/a> will get a second chance to win the French Open this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gauff, 21, defeated Lo\u00efs Boisson 6-1, 6-2 in the semifinals Thursday, propelling her to the second French Open final of her career so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American tennis star, ranked No. 2 at Roland Garros, will face the No. 1 seed Aryna Sabalenka in the women’s final on Saturday in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The match on Saturday will be only the second No. 1 vs. No. 2 women’s final at the French Open in the past 30 years,\u00a0according to<\/a>\u00a0ESPN.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The faceoff between Gauff and Sabalenka will be a Grand Slam final rematch for the pair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two faced off in the 2023 U.S. Open final, which Gauff won to earn her first Grand Slam title at age 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday’s final will be the third Grand Slam final of Gauff’s career. She was the runner-up to Iga Swiatek at Roland Garros in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sabalenka defeated Swiatek 7-6 (1), 4-6, 6-0 in the semifinals at this year’s tournament.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last summer at Roland Garros, Gauff made history during the 2024 Olympics, becoming the youngest American woman to win a singles match at the Olympics since Venus Williams in 2000, according to<\/a> ESPN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gauff also made history when she carried the flag for Team USA in the Games’ opening ceremony, becoming the first tennis player to carry the flag for the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coco Gauff will get a second chance to win the French Open this weekend. Gauff, 21, defeated Lo\u00efs Boisson 6-1, 6-2 in the semifinals Thursday, propelling her to the second French Open final of her career so far. The American tennis star, ranked No. 2 at Roland Garros, will face the No. 1 seed Aryna Sabalenka […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":43183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5782],"tags":[1811,30298,7213],"class_list":["post-43182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ep","tag-french","tag-gauff","tag-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43184,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43182\/revisions\/43184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}