After spending her earlier years setting rare milestones owing to her precocity, Coco Gauff now comes into the biggest tournaments armed with an even more important strength: experience.
As the third seed defeated Dayana Yastremska 6-2, 6-4 in a bruising battle on Friday, Gauff’s win sent her into the fourth round of Roland Garros for the fourth successive year, making her only the second American to do that in the open era at the age of 20, Jennifer Capriati being the first in 1993. Gauff was then asked about having won more matches in Paris at her age than Chris Evert.
