LONDON (AP) — Coco Gauff turned simply the third lady within the Open period to lose within the first spherical at Wimbledon proper after profitable the championship on the French Open, eradicated 7-6 (3), 6-1 by unseeded Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine on Tuesday night time.
The No. 2-ranked Gauff made mistake after mistake at No. 1 Courtroom, ending with simply six winners and a complete of 29 unforced errors that included 9 double-faults.
It was just a bit greater than three weeks in the past that Gauff was celebrating her second Grand Slam title by getting previous No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the final on the pink clay of Roland-Garros. The 21-year-old American additionally took residence the trophy from the 2023 U.S. Open.
However regardless that Gauff’s large breakthrough got here on the All England Membership at age 15 in 2019, when she beat Venus Williams in her opening match and made all of it the way in which to the fourth spherical, the grass-court event has proved to be her least-successful main.
It’s the one Slam the place Gauff hasn’t made not less than the semifinals.
Certainly, she has but to get previous the fourth spherical and now has been despatched residence within the first spherical twice prior to now three years.
The transition from clay to grass has confirmed robust for many gamers, and the final lady to win the French Open and Wimbledon in the identical season was Serena Williams a decade in the past.
Nonetheless, for the reason that Open period started in 1968, solely Justine Henin in 2005 and Francesca Schiavone in 2010 went from holding the trophy in Paris to exiting instantly in London.
Gauff was by no means fairly at her finest Tuesday towards Yastremska, who had misplaced all three of their earlier matchups and at present us ranked forty second. Yastremska’s finest Grand Slam outcome was making all of it the way in which to the semifinals on the Australian Open’s laborious courts final 12 months, though she entered this occasion with a report of solely 10-11 in first-round matches at majors.
Gauff, against this, was 20-3 at that stage, together with a loss to Sofia Kenin at Wimbledon in 2023.
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