Coco Gauff is a Grand Slam champion.
The rising American tennis star authored a stunning comeback win over Aryna Sabalenka in the U.S. Open women’s singles final Saturday in New York.
Gauff, the tournament’s No. 6 seed and world’s 10th-ranked women’s player, defeated No. 2 Sabalenka—the incoming world No. 1—by a score of 2–6, 6–3, 6–2 to record her first major title in front of a raucous crowd at the Billie Jean King Tennis Center in Queens.