In recent years, the WTA has been characterized by being a circuit in which its two maximum exponents, Belarusa Aryna Sabalenka and the Polish IgA Swiatek, have become the Great Dominators of the female circuit. Rare was the tournament in which they did not win and many came to ensure that this trend was going to be maintained in the short-medium term.
However, time has been in charge of demonstrating that in female tennis there is life beyond Sabalenka and Swiatek and that there are players who have enough level to stand up in both the WTA category tournaments and in the Grand Slamsthe championships that every professional tennis player dreams of winning.
And one of those players is Dionne ‘Coco’ Gauff choirs. With only 21 years, the tennis player born in Atlanta has established himself in the women US Open of 2023, a tournament in which he won, precisely, the Belarusa Aryna Sabalenka and in which he could fulfill the dream he always had as a child.
The progression of Coco Gauff in recent years has been more than evident and those who have been following her for a long time say that if everything goes well, she could collect the legacy left by the American Serena Williams In female tennis with those 23 Majors that he achieved between 1999 and 2017.
At the moment, the player born in Atlanta 21 years ago occupies the fourth position in the WTA ranking with 6073 points and, if he ends up triumphing in Madrida tournament in which he is deploying an exquisite tennis level, would advance his compatriot Jessica Pegula In the classification and would be somewhat closer to surpassing Swiatek as the second best player in the world.
The road to Coco Gauff’s final in Madrid has been very positive. Except for a debut suffered against the Ukrainian Dayana yastremskathe rest of the games have been more or less placid for the Atlanta player and in all of them he has made it clear that he has everything necessary to be the best in the world.
In the game for the title, Gauff will see the faces against the Belarusian Sabalenkawhich will seek to take its third title in the Spanish capital. It will undoubtedly be a most disputed final in which the American will put the really complicated things to the current dominator of the women’s circuit.
The face to face between them is favorable for Gauff 5-4, but the news of all this is that, when no one trusted, female tennis has in the American a reef to cling so that on the WTA you can see a three-band fight as happened, for example, in the ATP, although always saving the distances, with Rafa Nadal, Roger Federer y Novak Djokovic.
Coco Gauff in Action in the match against IgA SwiatekEuropa Press
Gauff knows that he has everything necessary to succeed in tennis and, although he can leave Madrid as the number two in the world, he is very clear that his goal is to reach the top of female tennis.
«I will be honest, it is not important to me. The only number that would mean a lot for me at this time is number one. But, yes, anything else is just a number. But it is obviously a reward for the work I am doing and the consistency I am showing, but it is not something that I think is a goal to reach, ”said the American at the end of her semifinal duel against Ig Swiatek.
In short, Coco Gauff It has been planted in the WTA 1000 final in Madrid without making a lot of noise and, throughout these two weeks it has shown the Spanish public that has plenty WTA.
