WIMBLEDON, England — Coco Gauff grew to become simply the third lady within the Open period to lose within the first spherical at Wimbledon proper after successful the championship on the French Open, eradicated 7-6 (3), 6-1 by unseeded Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine on Tuesday night time.
The No. 2-ranked Gauff made mistake after mistake at No. 1 Court docket, ending with simply six winners and a complete of 29 unforced errors that included 9 double-faults.
It was just a bit greater than three weeks in the past that Gauff was celebrating her second Grand Slam title by getting previous No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka within the closing on the purple clay of Roland-Garros. The 21-year-old American additionally took residence the trophy from the 2023 U.S. Open.
However despite the fact that Gauff’s massive breakthrough got here on the All England Membership at age 15 in 2019, when she beat Venus Williams in her opening match and made all of it the best way to the fourth spherical, the grass-court match has proved to be her least-successful main.
It is the one Slam the place Gauff hasn’t made at the very least the semifinals.
Certainly, she has but to get previous the fourth spherical and now has been despatched residence within the first spherical twice prior to now three years.
The transition from clay to grass has confirmed powerful for many gamers, and the final lady to win the French Open and Wimbledon in the identical season was Serena Williams a decade in the past.
Nonetheless, for the reason that Open period started in 1968, solely Justine Henin in 2005 and Francesca Schiavone in 2010 went from holding the trophy in Paris to exiting instantly in London.
Gauff was by no means fairly at her greatest Tuesday towards Yastremska, who had misplaced all three of their earlier matchups and at the moment us ranked forty second. Yastremska’s greatest Grand Slam consequence was making all of it the best way to the semifinals on the Australian Open’s onerous courts final 12 months, though she entered this occasion with a file of solely 10-11 in first-round matches at majors.
Gauff, in contrast, was 20-3 at that stage, together with a loss to Sofia Kenin at Wimbledon in 2023.