{"id":232,"date":"2025-06-07T20:08:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T20:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=232"},"modified":"2025-06-07T20:15:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T20:15:49","slug":"gauff-beats-sabalenka-to-win-french-open-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Gauff beats Sabalenka to win French Open title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Coco Gauff won the first French Open singles title of her career by fighting back to beat world number one Aryna Sabalenka in a rollercoaster final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>American second seed Gauff claimed a 6-7 (5-7) 6-2 6-4 victory after a tense battle between the WTA Tour&#8217;s two leading players in testing conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Craig David &amp; Tiwa Savage - Commitment\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3vxPZnhcgfo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I honestly didn&#8217;t think I could do it,&#8221; Gauff, 21, said during the trophy presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gauff recovered from a difficult start where she trailed by a double break, eventually finding her rhythm and benefiting from a huge number of mistakes from 27-year-old Sabalenka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This hurts so much. 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