Ranking Reaction

Coco Gauff to rise to new career-high ranking of No. 2 on Monday, after Roland Garros

She’ll be the first American tennis player, male or female, to be ranked in the Top 2 since Serena Williams in 2017.

Published Jun 06, 2024

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Coco Gauff will rise to a new career-high ranking of No. 2 on Monday, after Roland Garros, the WTA has announced.

With Gauff—who’s currently ranked No. 3—winning her quarterfinal match in Paris on Tuesday, and Aryna Sabalenka, who’s currently No. 2, losing hers on Wednesday, the two will switch spots when the new WTA rankings come out on Monday, following the conclusion of the tournament.

With that, Gauff will become the first American, male or female, to rank in the Top 2 since Serena Williams was No. 2 during the two weeks of Roland Garros in 2017 (May 29th to June 11th).

Since then, three Americans have reached No. 3—Sloane Stephens, Jessica Pegula and Gauff herself—but Gauff is the first of the trio to take it one step further and break into the Top 2.

COCO GAUFF’S MAJOR RANKING BREAKTHROUGHS:
~ Top 200 debut on July 15th, 2019 [age 15]
~ Top 100 debut on October 14th, 2019 [age 15]
~ Top 50 debut on February 24th, 2020 [age 15]
~ Top 20 debut on September 13th, 2021 [age 17]
~ Top 10 debut on September 12th, 2022 [age 18]
~ Top 5 debut on October 24th, 2022 [age 18]
~ Top 3 debut on September 11th, 2023 [age 19]
~ Top 2 debut on June 10th, 2024 [age 20]

Gauff is the only player, male or female, to reach the semifinals or better at the last three majors in a row.

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Gauff has been one of—if not the—most consistent player at the Grand Slams since last summer, and that’s on either the men’s or women’s tour. She’s the only player to reach the semifinals or better at the last three majors, having won the US Open last year, reached the semifinals of the Australian Open this year (falling to Sabalenka) and now the semifinals at Roland Garros.

She’s won 17 of her last 18 matches at Grand Slams.

And she has next to nothing to defend at the majors until she defends her title at the US Open, too—she’s already only adding to her ranking points just by reaching the semifinals at Roland Garros this year, having posted a quarterfinal finish last year, and she fell in the opening round of Wimbledon last July.

She’ll play Iga Swiatek for a spot in the final in Paris today.

20, 82 - At 20y 82d, Coco Gauff is the youngest player to reach three or more consecutive Women’s Singles semi-finals at Grand Slam events since Maria Sharapova - four between Wimbledon 2006 and Roland Garros 2007. Bloom.#rolandgarros | @rolandgarros @WTA @WTA_insider pic.twitter.com/qXfI17MLDJ
— OptaAce (@OptaAce) June 4, 2024

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