Aryna Sabalenka is still the queen of Madrid. The Belarusian tennis player has achieved the third mutual Madrid Open of her career after beating Coco Gauff, current number 4 of the WTA ranking, 6-3 and 7-6 (3) in 1 hour and 38 minutes in the end. The first classified in the female team enforced her favorite status and, although the American has completed two magnificent weeks about the clay of Madrid, it has not been enough to defeat an incombustible Sabalenka.
At 26, Aryna is the third time he raises the champion trophy after 2021 and 2023. He was a finalist in 2024, but failed to defeat IgA świątek. In addition, Petra Kvitova equals as the player who has added the champion title in Madrid to her record.
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Aryna Sabalenka has played six games in this Spanish tournament and has only granted a set against, it was against Elise Mertens in Third Round. From there, an overwhelming domain that has also materialized before Coco Gauff. If the American wanted to stand up in the final, he should make the very long points to try to avoid lashes from the Aryna track bottom. However, nothing comfortable Gauff has been and has paid that lack of rhythm compared to the number one of the WTA ranking.
With this triumph against Coco, Sabalenka matches the ‘face to face’ between the two, since they have faced up to ten times and each of them is distributed five victories. The last one has fallen on the side of the Belarusian in this final of the Mutua Madrid Open 2025.
Aryna seemed to be in a hurry since the beginning of the final and the first set closed it in an overwhelming way, in a little more than half an hour with a score of 6-3. He got 4-1 up and with service to establish the 5-1, however, a ‘counter-gauff’s counter-bright kept the American alive for a short time. Of course, Sabalenka took a step forward when she was the rest with 5-3 and materialized her second break in the ninth game to close the set 6-3 and be closer to the title.
Sabalenka accelerates at the end to win
Coco Gauff went through changing rooms at rest, but he returned very soon to dispel any glimpse of doubt for a possible injury. In fact, he returned stronger to the clay of Madrid and with a very early ‘break’ he won 1-3 in the second set.
In her next serve, the North American resisted two sabalenka breakfast balls to make the game and not let a 2-4 escape that approached him to force the third partial in the final in Madrid. Gauph arrived up to 3-5, but the Belarusian tennis player managed to lift a coconut set ball and break the service to the fifth ‘break’ ball of Sabalenka and establish the five equal in the second partial. Aryna materialized her third consecutive game with 6-5 and moved all the pressure to Gauff, who had to win her serve if she wanted to force the sleeve to the ‘Tie-Break. The current number 1 of the WTA ranking came to have a championship ball, but it did not materialize it and the final was decided from the tiebreaker.
In the ‘Tie-Break’ Sabalenka began more plugged in and set 3-0 up after breaking the first two Gauff’s serves. However, the American gave her her own medicine by establishing 3-3 in the same way before marching to the benches. However, four consecutive points of the Belarusian gave him the tiebreaker, the final and also the tournament.
