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Coco Gauff became conscionable the 3rd pistillate successful the Open epoch to suffer successful the archetypal circular astatine Wimbledon close aft winning the title astatine the French Open, eliminated 7-6 (3), 6-1 by unseeded Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine connected Tuesday night.
The No. 2-ranked Gauff made mistake aft mistake astatine No. 1 Court, finishing with conscionable six winners and a full of 29 unforced errors that included 9 double-faults.
"Dayana started disconnected playing strong," Gauff said. "I couldn't find my footing retired determination today."
She joined different highly seeded American, No. 3 Jessica Pegula, successful bowing retired connected Day 2 of the tournament. In all, 23 seeds — 13 men and 10 women — already are gone earlier the archetypal circular is adjacent done, tying the astir astatine immoderate Grand Slam tourney since they began seeding 32 players successful each singles bracket successful 2001.
Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine shakes hands with Coco Gauff of the U.S. aft winning the archetypal circular women's singles lucifer astatine the Wimbledon Tennis Championships successful London, Tuesday, July 1, 2025.
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It was conscionable a small much than 3 weeks agone that Gauff was celebrating her second Grand Slam title by getting past No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka successful the last connected the reddish clay of Roland-Garros.
The speedy turnaround mightiness person been an issue, Gauff acknowledged.
"I consciousness similar mentally I was a small spot overwhelmed with everything that came afterwards," said the 21-year-old Gauff, "so I didn't consciousness similar I had capable clip to observe and besides get backmost into it."
She didn't deliberation it mattered Tuesday that their lucifer determination was shifted from Centre Court to Court No. 1 oregon that she was told astir a caller commencement clip lone astir an hr earlier the contention began.
Even though Gauff's large breakthrough came astatine the All England Club astatine property 15 successful 2019, erstwhile she bushed Venus Williams successful her opening lucifer and made it each the mode to the 4th round, the grass-court tourney has proved to beryllium her slightest palmy major.
It's the lone Slam wherever Gauff hasn't made astatine slightest the semifinals.
Indeed, she has yet to get past the 4th circular and present has been sent location successful the archetypal circular doubly successful the past 3 years.
The modulation from clay to writer has proven pugnacious for astir players, and the past pistillate to triumph the French Open and Wimbledon successful the aforesaid play was Serena Williams a decennary ago.
Still, since the Open epoch began successful 1968, lone Justine Henin successful 2005 and Francesca Schiavone successful 2010 went from holding the trophy successful Paris to exiting instantly successful London.
Gauff was ne'er rather astatine her champion Tuesday against Yastremska, who had mislaid each 3 of their erstwhile matchups and presently is ranked 42nd.
A peculiar occupation for Gauff, arsenic it often is, was her serving. She managed to enactment lone 45% of her archetypal serves successful play, won 14 of her 32 second-serve points and had each of those double-faults, including a brace successful the tiebreaker and different erstwhile she got breached to unfastened the 2nd set.
"When I tin service well, and immoderate games I did, it's decidedly an added threat," Gauff said. "I didn't service that well."
Yastremska's champion Grand Slam effect was making it each the mode to the semifinals connected the Australian Open's hard courts past year, though she entered this lawsuit with a grounds of lone 10-11 successful first-round matches astatine majors.
Gauff, by contrast, was 20-3 astatine that stage, including a nonaccomplishment to Sofia Kenin astatine Wimbledon successful 2023.
Yastremska's deepest tally astatine Wimbledon was making the 4th circular successful 2019, though she did get to the last of the inferior lawsuit successful 2016.
"I was truly connected fire," said Yastremska, who accumulated 16 winners. "Playing against Coco, it is thing special."
She precocious reached her archetypal tourney last connected grass, astatine a smaller lawsuit successful Nottingham, which she said gave her assurance heading to the All England Club.
"I emotion playing connected grass. I consciousness that this twelvemonth we are benignant of friends," Yastremska said with a laugh. "I anticipation the roadworthy volition proceed for maine here."
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