Gauff, last year’s finalist at Roland Garros, has been playing at the top of tennis for several years, despite still being a teenager. She is the number seven in the world and has taken four titles so far this week. However, Grand Slam titles or final victories at WTA 1000 tournaments were still missing from her palmares until Sunday.
Gauff finished it after one hour and 56 minutes on her fourth game point. She concluded the duel in the heat – in Cincinnati it was above 35 degrees Celsius – with a love game. At 5-2 she left three match points unused. Muchova, the global number seventeen, ended the game with a drop.
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In the semifinals, Gauff had already defeated the Polish Iga Swiatek. The American had never beaten the number one in the world in seven matches. Gauff is now preparing for the US Open, the grand slam tournament that starts in New York in just over a week. The Cincinnati tournament, won five years ago by Kiki Bertens, is the final preparation.
The men’s singles final in Cincinnati, USA, starts around 10:30 PM (Dutch time) and is between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic. Those are the numbers one and two in the world.