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Caroline Garcia, an appointment to change dimension against Coco Gauff

The French n°1 will challenge the young and talented American in the quarter-finals of the US Open. The challenge, a first place in the Grand Slam semi-finals.

The American Alison Riske whom she had never beaten (in three matches) was not able to derail her. Tense, then released, the French Caroline Garcia climbed the obstacle 6-4, 6-1 to reach the quarter-finals of the US Open. Buoyed by a series of 12 consecutive victories (30 wins-4 losses since mid-June), she will play the second Grand Slam quarter-final of her career, after Roland-Garros 2017. The last Frenchwoman to qualify for the quarter-finals of the US Open was Kristina Mladenovic in 2015. Caroline Garcia advances without having lost a single set. Like Amélie Mauresmo at Wimbledon in 2006 and Marion Bartoli at Wimbledon in 2013…

Winner this season in Cincinnati (on hard) after Bad Hombourg (grass) and Warsaw (clay), Caroline Garcia (seeded n°17) is still evolving on cloud nine. At 28, she is going through the most prosperous period of a career which, after the flashes of autumn 2018 having taken her to 4e world rank, seemed to be bogged down. Next step for the French back on the front of the stage, the American Coco Gauff, this Tuesday on the Arthur Ashe court. The greatest court in the world against an American. An XXL challenge.

In The Teamthe French presented the shock: “ It’s going to be explosive! It’s a match I’m really looking forward to playing, there’s a lot of excitement: Grand Slam quarter-final, playing Coco who is really a superstar, already, despite her young age, in the United States. The American public which is always very, very hot, which can ignite on each point… It’s really a great opportunity, a great experience and an additional challenge to manage to make a great match. It has very good ground coverage. She is a very athletic player. It’s a challenge to find the right tactic. My style of play will help me put pressure on her and take her out of her comfort zone a bit. »

Since December 2021 has patiently put together the pieces for the reconstruction of his game and his physique with his new coach Bertrand Perret.

Serene, Coco Gauff (18 years old; seeded n°12) waits. She is the youngest American to reach the quarterfinals of the US Open since Melanie Oudin, 17 in 2009. And the youngest in the women’s big 8 of the Flushing Meadows table since the Swiss Blinda in 2014.

Coco Gauff, the heiress. Serena Williams’ loss at 3e round against Australian Ajla Tomljanovic having probably planted the end point of a fabulous career, American spectators are eager to see a new “ success story ” emerge. Coco Gauff, serving lead (in her 6-2, 7-6 victory against Romania’s Elena-Gabriela Ruse in the 2nd round of the US Open, the American flashed at 206 km / h slammed the fifth female serve fastest of all time), embodies this expectation. “Coco Gauff raised her fist and then waved her right index finger, responding to the Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd, who were on their feet and shouting even louder. Gauff’s US Open opponent, Shuai Zhang, covered both of her ears with her hands to protect them from what she later described as a “ boom “sound”, wrote Espn after his first qualification in the quarterfinals at the US Open. The American recounting: Here, I can’t hear myself scream. It makes me want to do it even more. I think I feed off a lot of that momentum. I like this. New York brings out a side of me that I haven’t had since I was 15, so that’s nice. »

Unhappy finalist this year at Roland-Garros, Coco Gauff is making great strides. Composed, thoughtful, mature, versatile (her game can be expressed on all surfaces, she who had revealed herself at Wimbledon in 2019, dominating Serena Williams her idol at 1is turn, which had earned him the congratulations of Michele Obama: “ Coco is awesome “), Coco Gauff knew not to let herself be crushed by the weight of comparisons. To write his story. She will put her youth and her determination in the face of the ambition of Caroline Garcia who, in 2018, announced during Roland-Garros her desire for the front page of L’Équipe: “Winning a Grand Slam”

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