Coco Gauff Upsets Sabalenka to Win US Open Title
Coco Gauff signalled a potentially new era for American tennis by holding her nerve to stage a brilliant comeback and claim the US Open title Saturday night.
The Arthur Ashe Stadium rose to acclaim a new hero as she ultimately dissected the game of Aryna Sabalenka to emerge a 2-6 6-3 6-2 winner after a sometimes chaotic but always compelling final.
Before an assembled A-list crowd of screen stars – from Nicole Kidman to Diane Keaton – the players fought for a cheque of $3 million, fifty years after equal prize money was introduced.
The 19-year-old can expect a far greater bounty than that in time after positioning herself in the vanguard of an emerging generation.
A shooting star to the last 16 at Wimbledon four years ago, she has been a long time in the making but this was a coming of age which will promote her to world number three.
