Gauff sails into French Open quarter-finals

French Open 2025

Location: Roland Garros, May 25 – June

Coco Gauff, the second-ranked player in the world, won another impressive straight sets victory to advance to the quarter-finals, continuing her quest for her first French Open singles title.

In Paris, the American, age 21, defeated Russian 20th seed Ekaterina Alexandrova 6 , 7-5.

Gauff only managed five points in the first five games of the first set, which lasted 29 minutes.

Gauff, who finished second in 2022, has made it to the quarter-finals for the fifth time in a row, at Roland Garros.

Madison Keys and Hailey Baptiste, the Australian Open champions, will face her in the fourth-round meeting.

Mirra Andreeva, a teenager from Russia, also advanced in straight sets to the last eight.

Gauff started well against Alexandrova, but Alexandrova’s pressure was evident in the first set.

In a sixth game that lasted almost ten minutes before she finally converted her third set point, she had to withstand five break points.

Gauff faced break points for the first time in a close second set, but he came out on top to take the lead 4-3 to an improved opponent.

Gauff finished the game stronger and won with a run of three straight games as Alexandrova, who was first in Paris, faced immediate resistance.

Andreeva, age 18, is the youngest player to reach Roland Garros’ second consecutive women’s singles quarter-final since 1998’s Martina Hingis.

And she did it with victory over a rival she admitted to not like to practice with, let alone compete for a spot in a significant quarter-final.

After breaking Kasatkina’s serve in the eighth game, Andreeva edged a close first set with a certain-service game.

In the second set, she came out strong and won four games straight to tie the game at 5-3.

Andreeva, who lost to Kasatkina in the Ningbo final last year in China, remarked, “It was a hell of a match.”

I detest playing against her, and I’m so happy I won.