Coco Gauff crowned Roland Garros champion after defeating Aryna Sobolenko

By&nbspEuronews

Published on 07/06/2025 - 18:42 GMT+2

American Coco Gauff is this year's champion of nan French Open. In nan Roland Garros final, she defeated Aryna Sobolenko of Belarus successful 3 sets.

The incredibly hard-fought first game, which lasted 1 hr and 17 minutes, was won by nan world number 1 connected a tie-break - 7:6. In nan 2nd set, nan American tennis subordinate restored nan equilibrium - 6:2. The 3rd crippled was besides dominated by Gauff and ended 6:4.

It was nan 11th gathering betwixt Sobolenko and Gauff, pinch nan American taking nan lead successful nan antecedently adjacent tally of face-to-face confrontations.

For nan American tennis subordinate this Grand Slam trophy is nan 2nd of her career. In 2023, she defeated Sobolenko successful nan last of nan U.S. Open.

This year's last successful Paris was nan first clip a world number 1 and number 2 had met present since 2013, erstwhile Serena Williams defeated Maria Sharapova, and only nan 3rd specified duel successful nan past 30 years.