WIMBLEDON, England — Coco Gauff turned simply the third girl within the Open period to lose within the first spherical at Wimbledon proper after profitable the championship on the French Open, eradicated 7-6 (3), 6-1 by unseeded Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine on Tuesday evening.
The No. 2-ranked Gauff made mistake after mistake at No. 1 Court docket, ending with simply six winners and a complete of 29 unforced errors that included 9 double-faults.
It was just a bit greater than three weeks in the past that Gauff was celebrating her second Grand Slam title by getting previous No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka within the closing on the pink clay of Roland-Garros. The 21-year-old American additionally took house the trophy from the 2023 US Open.
However despite the fact that Gauff’s large breakthrough got here on the All England Membership at age 15 in 2019, when she beat Venus Williams in her opening match and made all of it the way in which to the fourth spherical, the grass-court match has proved to be her least profitable main.
It is the one Slam the place Gauff hasn’t made no less than the semifinals.
Certainly, she has but to get previous the fourth spherical and now has been despatched house within the first spherical twice prior to now three years.
The transition from clay to grass has proved robust for many gamers, and the final girl to win the French Open and Wimbledon in the identical season was Serena Williams a decade in the past.
Nonetheless, for the reason that Open period started in 1968, solely Justine Henin in 2005 and Francesca Schiavone in 2010 went from holding the trophy in Paris to exiting instantly in London.
Gauff was by no means fairly at her finest Tuesday in opposition to Yastremska, who had misplaced all three of their earlier matchups and at present is ranked forty second. Yastremska’s finest Grand Slam end result was making all of it the way in which to the semifinals on the Australian Open’s onerous courts final yr, though she entered this occasion with a report of solely 10-11 in first-round matches at majors.
Gauff, in contrast, was 20-3 at that stage, together with a loss to Sofia Kenin at Wimbledon in 2023.