Gauff defeated Sabalenka in the Roland Garros final

The second Major title in Gauff's career, after the 2023 US Open Championship - where she defeated Sabalenka itself with a reverse victory. At the beginning of the year, Sabalenka also lost to another American, Madison Keys in the Australian finals expanded.

The performance in Sabalenka's finals recently alarming, when losing four of the six matches since the beginning of the year. In addition to the two Grand Slam finals, Belarus players also lost the final at Indian Wells and Stuttgart. In the final of Roland Garros on June 7, the world number one player made 70 errors of self -damage - a record number in this year's women's singles content.

Sabalenka started strongly, like the way she made throughout the journey to the final with just a set. The world's number one player soon has a break-point, surpassing 4-1 leading. But in high wind conditions and 18 degrees Celsius, Sabalenka had problems in the serve and left hand, causing her to lose four next four games. On the other side of the net, Gauff also fell into the same situation, when always playing better in the ball game. With a series of mistakes from the two players, the first set must enter tie-break and in this series, Sabalenka won 7-5 thanks to taking advantage of the three mini-breaks. This did not improve in the two set, when she soon lost the first game, made 19 other self-defective errors and lost 2-6 quickly. This set is also the time when Gauff pushed the pressure of the ball, ready for the passing when pulling the opponent into the net. One of them is the Sabalenka situation that makes the Smash but Gauff still moves to launch the left wire Winner. But Sabalenka still has many errors even though it is often the one who actively attacks. She lost the fourth game after three consecutive errors, out of 19 errors in this set. This is the turning point that helps Gauff to win 6-4 thanks to keeping all the gamers later, including a rescue break-point in the last game. The decisive point that helped Gauff was crowned to be another hand out of Sabalenka.

In the speech after the battle, Sabalenka cried because of regret and disappointment with his style. "Gauff played better but I made too many errors, in today's difficult conditions," the Belarus player said. "In many situations, I felt some supernatural power that made me beat, or judged the wrong point ." She is the first American player to be crowned at Philippe Chatrier since Serena Williams in 2015 and the second youngest American in the championship history, at the age of 21. Since 1990, only two other American players won this event, Monica Seles and Jennifer CapiatiTi.