By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_now | Saturday, June 7, 2025
Photo Credit: Julien de Rosa/AFP/Getty
Tears knocked her cheeks as a bored Sabalenka tried to understand the emotional ruins.
In the first French Open final among the two best women in the world in 12 years, no. 2 Coco gafff It was simply very harsh for No.1 Sabalenka at the time of the crisis today.
Elastic Coco gafff fought Aryna Sabalenka’s The tough power with a pure bang by drawing a 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-4 return to capture her daughter’s championship Roland Garros in a thriller.
Then, the best player in the world called her the worst final.
“It was really sincerely the worst tennis I played in the last, I don’t know, in the latter I don’t know how many months,” Sabalenka told Paris media afterwards. “The conditions were terrible, and it was just better in these conditions than I. I think it was the worst final I have ever played.”
Opposing her third direct final, Sabalenka fell to 3-3 liffes in the Grand Slam title matches.
21-year-old Gauff improved to 6-5 Lifetime vs Sabalenka showing that she is not afraid of the power of the Belarusians and avoiding a love for a good war than to disturb the battle when he is tightened.
After pulling the opening connector, Sabalenka spent most of this match fighting the battles on numerous fronts.
The upper seed was trying to descend its drives between a movable wind that sometimes gust 25 mph, drilling the shocking protection and ability of the fast Gauff, making her opponent play a more ball, and to calm the volcanic temperature that exploded occasionally when its dream was scattered.
Despite all that drama and self-sacrifice, Sabalenka still fought again from 1-3 down to decision makers and won a resting point in the last game before Gauff had two final mistakes to close a slow time, but pulsating constantly in two hours, 38 minutes.
The high seeds sometimes said that she felt that the tennis universe was playing a cosmic joke on her with Guff jogging by turning Sabalenka’s harmful discs into note lines.
“I mean, honestly sometimes felt as if she was hitting the ball out of the frame,” Sabalenka said. “Somewhat magically the ball landed in court, and you, like, like, on the back leg.
“He felt a joke, honestly, like someone from above was just to stay there laughing, like, let’s see if you could handle this. And I couldn’t today.
“I really hope the next time we play. If they are the same conditions, I will probably play a little smarter, not excessive things, and yes, try to stay there and try to fight.”
Many will collide the sabalenka for her post -match remarks, but it is important to apply a perspective.
The adrenaline from this battle was still traversing through its veins when Sabalenka entered her oppressor after the match. In retrospect, she has been wiser to take a break in an effort to let emotions go down and clean her head before meeting the media. It was Sabalenka’s second final loss of Sabalenka to an underrated American opponent behind Madison Keys’ Australian Open Final Open, who only added to the anxiety after the triple sample of Grand Slam could have been halfway in a calendar Grand Slam.
A bold key to the defensive champion twice protective Sabalenka 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 in an inspiring Ao Showdown Premier Power Players that escalated into the stunning slugfest in Rod Laver Arena.
The 19th year Kysesels pierced a diagonal winner of the first money, closing the first women’s final to go to 5 in decision makers after Serena Williams Edged Victoria Azarenka in the US Open 2012 final.
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So Sabalenka was favored in the last two main finals only to fall frustrating short.
At the same time, Sabalenka aspires to be a sample of the entire surface.
One reason she still does not have to gain a major in clay or grass is those natural surfaces presented variables and the woman who can create chaos for opponents has not shown the ability to master unfair conditions on slippery surfaces. This is what being a sample all over the surface requires even though you have to face the challenge rather than just complain about it.
If Sabalenka ever reviews a repetition of this match, she will see areas of improvement tactically, emotionally and competitively. Gauff played purest tennis between chaotic conditions, performing 40 fewer uninhaled mistakes and sealing seven love games compared to two for sabalenka.
When Stress came, Sabalenka tried to choose it by squeezing shots closer to the lines – especially on its discs below it. Instead, it distributed 70 forced errors.
You cannot blame the sabalenka for targeting the poor wing of premature gaffe-is a common tactic and the world recognizes the Baseliner born in Delray beach, possesses one of the most harmful backwardness of the two hands in the game-but to serve almost exclusively in that preface to Deuce Court, in that premature return. It is no. 2 In the world if you telegraph your service for it throughout the match, what do you think will happen?
The Open Open champion is a worthy world no. 1, but Gauff was clearly the most composed competitor to meet every crisis point as a challenge she could solve, while Sabalenka was getting bored, shouting and sometimes crying in her box looking a little as a fiery contender by frustrating her time in the Salmon phase than the premiere player of the world.
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This loss will hit for a long time.
An unhappy sabalenk said she would treat the pain with a drug: Tequila and rubber bears.
We hope that for Belarus, Bears and Booze will follow Grand Slam ghosts away.
“I already have a reserved flight to mykonos and alcohol, sugar,” Sabalenka said. “I only need a few days to completely forget this crazy world and this crazy – if I can swear, I’ll swear now, but this crazy thing that happened today …
“Tequila, rubber bears and I don’t know, swimming, being like a tourist for two days.”
