No. 2 Coco Gauff falls in 1st round Wimbledon upset

LONDON -- Coco Gauff became conscionable the 3rd pistillate successful the Open epoch to suffer successful the archetypal circular astatine Wimbledon close aft winning the title astatine the French Open, eliminated 7-6 (3), 6-1 by unseeded Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine connected Tuesday night.

The No. 2-ranked Gauff made mistake aft mistake astatine No. 1 Court, finishing with conscionable six winners and a full of 29 unforced errors that included 9 double-faults.

It was conscionable a small much than 3 weeks agone that Gauff was celebrating her 2nd Grand Slam rubric by getting past No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka successful the last connected the reddish clay of Roland-Garros. The 21-year-old American besides took location the trophy from the 2023 U.S. Open.

But adjacent though Gauff's large breakthrough came astatine the All England Club astatine property 15 successful 2019, erstwhile she bushed Venus Williams successful her opening lucifer and made it each the mode to the 4th round, the grass-court tourney has proved to beryllium her least-successful major.

It's the lone Slam wherever Gauff hasn't made astatine slightest the semifinals.

Indeed, she has yet to get past the 4th circular and present has been sent location successful the archetypal circular doubly successful the past 3 years.

The modulation from clay to writer has proven pugnacious for astir players, and the past pistillate to triumph the French Open and Wimbledon successful the aforesaid play was Serena Williams a decennary ago.

Still, since the Open epoch began successful 1968, lone Justine Henin successful 2005 and Francesca Schiavone successful 2010 went from holding the trophy successful Paris to exiting instantly successful London.

Gauff was ne'er rather astatine her champion Tuesday against Yastremska, who had mislaid each 3 of their erstwhile matchups and presently america ranked 42nd. Yastremska's champion Grand Slam effect was making it each the mode to the semifinals connected the Australian Open's hard courts past year, though she entered this lawsuit with a grounds of lone 10-11 successful first-round matches astatine majors.

Gauff, by contrast, was 20-3 astatine that stage, including a nonaccomplishment to Sofia Kenin astatine Wimbledon successful 2023.