Coco Gauff Dominates To Reach French Open Quarter-Finals Again

Coco Gauff showed no signs of slowing down after advancing to the French Open quarter-finals for a fourth consecutive year with a straight-sets victory over Elisabetta Cocciaretto. Iga Swiatek had blitzed past Anastasia Potapova in just over 40 minutes earlier on Sunday, and a wind-swept Court Philippe-Chatrier witnessed a similar demolition shortly after.

Gauff dropped just five points on service in a dominant first set, brushing the world number 51 to one side in a routine 25-minute opener. Italy's Cocciaretto responded by holding her serve in the second set but had no match for the athletic Gauff, who secured another break early on to go 2-1 up. The world number three resumed her usual domination from there on, with Cocciaretto struggling to thwart Gauff's resounding power and eventually falling to a 6-1, 6-2 defeat in just over an hour.

Gauff, the US Open champion in 2023, is still yet to lose a set in Paris this year as she prepares for a last-eight meeting with Clara Tauson or Ons Jabeur.

Cocciaretto had defeated 2023 French Open semi-finalist Beatriz Haddad Maia and big-hitting 17th-seed Liudmila Samsonova to reach this stage, with the 23-year-old impressing in the French capital. Yet Gauff, three years younger than the Italian, could not be stopped on Philippe-Chatrier. She now has 19 wins at Roland-Garros, two more than Chris Evert managed before turning 21.

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