Coco Gauff has brushed off Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s assertion that Iga Swiatek \u201cwould have won\u201d the French Open had she played in the final.<\/p>\n
World No 2 Gauff<\/a> produced a stunning comeback to defeat top seed Sabalenka in the Roland Garros showpiece match, winning 6-7 (5-7) 6-2 6-4 to secure the trophy.<\/p>\n It is the American\u2019s second Grand Slam title as she also won the 2023 US Open trophy with Sabalenka once again on the losing end.<\/p>\n But it was a match littered with errors from the reigning world No 1 as the Belarusian made 70 unforced errors compared to Gauff\u2019s 30. She also faced 21 break points, saving 12, while her opponent saved seven of the 13 she faced.<\/p>\n Sabalenka, who described the match as \u201cthe worst final\u201d she has ever played, overcame four-time French Open champion Swiatek in three sets in the semi-final and she feels the Pole would have won had she played in the final.<\/p>\n \u201cIf Iga would win me another day, I think she would go out today and she would get the win,\u201d the 27-year-old said. \u201cYeah, it just hurts.<\/p>\n \u201cHonestly hurts. I\u2019ve been playing really well, and then in the last match, go out there and perform like I did.\u201d<\/p>\n Gauff was asked for her response to Sabalenka\u2019s comments and feels her recent record against the five-time Grand Slam winner shows her pedigree.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t agree with that. I\u2019m here sitting here (laughter),\u201d she started off. \u201cLast time I played \u2013 no shade to Iga or anything \u2013 but I played her and I won in straight sets.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a fair thing to say, because anything can really happen.\u201d<\/p>\n Aryna Sabalenka brands French Open match against Coco Gauff \u2018the worst final\u2019 she has ever played<\/a><\/p>\n Points and money earned by Gauff, Sabalenka Swiatek, Boisson, Raducanu, Eala at French Open<\/a><\/p>\n Although Swiatek lead their head-to-head 11-4, Gauff has won their last three encounters as she beat the Pole 6-1, 6-1 at the Madrid Open recently, while she also won in straight sets at the United Cup in January and the WTA Finals last November.<\/p>\n She continued: \u201cHonestly, the way Aryna was playing the last few weeks, she was the favourite to win. So I think she was the best person that I could have played in the final.<\/p>\n \u201cHer being No 1 in the world was the best person to play, so I think I got the hardest matchup just if you go off stats alone.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously, Iga being a champion here, it was going to be a tough match either way. But I think regardless of who I played, I think I had a good shot to win.<\/p>\n \u201cI definitely had that belief. If you asked me, honestly speaking to you guys who I wanted to play, it was Iga just because I felt Aryna was playing so good, and she was.\u201d<\/p>\n The post What Coco Gauff had to say about Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s Iga Swiatek claim<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Coco Gauff has brushed off Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s assertion that Iga Swiatek \u201cwould have won\u201d the French Open had she played in the final. World No 2 Gauff produced a stunning comeback to defeat top seed Sabalenka in the Roland Garros showpiece match, winning 6-7 (5-7) 6-2 6-4 to secure the trophy. It is the American\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}French Open Final News<\/h3>\n