American tennis prodigy Coco Gauff won her first WTA title on Sunday, placing Latvia's Jelena Ostrapenko in three sets (6-3, 1-6, 6-2) on Sunday in Linz, Austria .
The American, who was revealed to the general public in July by eliminating her compatriot and idol Venus Williams in the first round of Wimbledon, became, at 15 and a half, the ninth youngest player in history to win a WTA tournament.
We must go back to 2004, with the title of the Czech Nicole Vaidisova in Vancouver, to find an earlier winner on the WTA tablets.
"I will remember this day the rest of my life," responded the player after his victory in the final, after a week started as "lucky looser" after failing in qualifying.
Easy winner of the first set, the American has experienced in the second a sudden drop in the speed of one of his main weapons, the service, before pulling himself together and sending the decisive round, where she notably inflicted a 5 0 to his Latvian opponent, 72nd player in the world.
Gauff is expected to leave 110th place in the WTA World Ranking to rank 71st. She is expected next week at the Luxembourg tournament.
With AFP