Coco Gauff Advances to Quarterfinals at Roland Garros
Coco Gauff, with a dominant performance, secured her place in the quarterfinals of the French Open for the fifth consecutive time. The American tennis player showed a solid and consistent game, overcoming her opponent in straight sets. In parallel, Lois Boisson, the last French representative in the women’s singles tournament, achieved a surprising victory by defeating Jessica Pegula, seeded number three, with a score of 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.“I played well throughout the match. She raised her level in the second set. Overall, I think I played great,” Gauff commented after her victory over Ekaterina Alexandrova.
Coco Gauff
Gauff demonstrated her skill on clay, a surface on which she feels comfortable with movement and sliding. In her match against Alexandrova, Gauff gained an initial 5-0 lead in just 15 minutes, showing her dominance on the court.
For her part, Boisson, who recovered from a serious knee injury suffered before last year’s French Open, expressed her gratitude after her victory in an exciting match that lasted 2 hours and 40 minutes. Boisson, who is currently ranked 361st in the world, will become the first French player to reach the quarterfinals since 2017.
“I don’t know what to say, but thank you. Playing on this court with such an incredible atmosphere was amazing,” said Boisson.
Lois Boisson
Boisson’s victory was celebrated by the public, who spontaneously sang “La Marseillaise”, the French national anthem. Boisson, after his outstanding performance, will add at least $500,000 to his professional earnings.
Madison Keys, seeded number seven, also advanced to the quarterfinals after defeating Hailey Baptiste with a score of 6-3, 7-5. In the quarterfinals, she will face Coco Gauff in an all-American match. Mirra Andreeva, a semifinalist at Roland Garros last year, will face Boisson after defeating Daria Kasatkina. Andreeva is the youngest player to reach consecutive quarterfinals at Roland Garros in nearly three decades.
Coco Gauff is back in a familiar place, advancing once again to the quarterfinals of the French Open.
Gauff, who won the 2023 US Open and was runner-up in Paris in 2022, has been at the center of a funny exchange with Frances Tiafoe, also a quarterfinalist at Roland Garros, due to an incident in which she forgot her rackets.Tiafoe, joking, referred to Gauff as “Mrs. Mature.” Gauff responded: “I feel like maybe playing tennis forces you to grow up faster for some people. Maybe not for him.”
Tiafoe was the first to make that mistake in March, showing up for a match in Indian Wells without his rackets. He received a lot of mockery on social media and from other players, including Gauff.
When Gauff arrived on the Philippe-Chatrier court for her first-round match last week and opened her bag, she realized she didn’t have any rackets, and Tiafoe was quick to point it out.
“He was shaking his bag like it was an empty cookie jar at Chatrier. I was like, ‘What are you doing?'”, said Tiafoe.
Frances Tiafoe
Gauff acknowledged that she couldn’t offer much of a response.
“I literally said to him: ‘From you, I expected it. From you, it’s okay, but the fact that it happened to me…’,” he said. “Because I feel like I’m a professional person, and I’m usually someone who, if someone knows me, I’m someone who can find the answer very quickly. Even if I’m wrong, I’m one of those people who will still defend themselves.
