Coco Gauff mutes Martina Trevisan, cruises into Roland Garros championship match

WATCH: Gauff got stronger with each game in the semifinals, overcoming Trevisan in under 90 minutes.

Coco Gauff silenced doubters and an inspired Martina Trevisan to oust the surprise semifinalist, 6-3, 6-1 and reach her first major final at Roland Garros.

The 18-year-old becomes the youngest major finalist since Maria Sharapova won Wimbledon in 2004—and the youngest at Roland Garros since Kim Clijsters in 2001—but drew on her considerable wealth of big-stage experience to knock out the unseeded Italian in 88 minutes on Court Philippe-Chatrier, losing just three points on serve in the second set.

Gauff, who won the junior girl's title back in 2018, is yet to face a Top 16-seeded player in her run to the final, but that will change on Saturday when she takes on world No. 1 Iga Swiatek in the biggest match of her young career. The two have played twice before—first on clay at the 2021 Internazionali BNL d’Italia and again earlier this year at the Miami Open—and Swiatek won both matches in straight sets.

The second semifinal of the day was a rematch of a 2020 Roland Garros second round between Gauff and Trevisan, which the latter won en route to her first major quarterfinal. Trevisan has backed up that unexpected result with aplomb this spring, winning her first WTA title at the Grand Prix de SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryeym in Rabat and riding a 10-match winning streak into the final four—scoring a dramatic three-set win over US Open finalist Leylah Fernandez in the quarterfinals.

A quarterfinalist last year, Gauff has been even more efficient in Paris, rolling through five wins without dropping a set, playing some of her best tennis in the last eight against 2018 Roland Garros finalist and 2017 US Open champion Sloane Stephens.

Against Trevisan, the two exchanged early breaks as the match got underway in tense fashion: Gauff complained to umpire Marijana Veljovic about the volume and length of the Italian’s grunt, while Trevisan refused to acquiesce to Veljovic’s subsequent recommendation that she quiet down.

Gauff nonetheless kept in front, scoring a pivotal service hold in the eighth game and breaking Trevisan once more to put herself six games from the final. Trevisan called for a medical timeout between sets to address a right thigh injury, but gamely hung with Gauff until it came time to serve at 1-2.

Down break point at the end of a 15-minute, seven-deuce game, Trevisan pulled up short on the forehand side, putting Gauff in position to clock a backhand down the line, convert her fourth break point, and edge out in front.

The teenager, who burst onto the scene with a headline grabbing win over Venus Williams at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships, continued to cruise towards victory, up-ending another Trevisan serve game from 40-30 down to find herself four points from the final.

Putting together one last love hold, she roared over the finish line with match points to spare, clinching the win with a service winner.

In all, Gauff played the far cleaner match, striking 14 winners to just 20 unforced errors while Trevisan ended the match with a -23 differential, and discovered her serve exactly when she needed it, something that will be essential against Swiatek when they meet in the final.