It will be their first time in the semi-finals of Roland Garros.
American Coco Gauff and Italian Marina Trevisan qualified for the final four of the Grand Slam tournament on Tuesday May 31 by beating American Sloane Stephens and Canadian Leylah Fernandez respectively.
Before 2022, each had already reached the quarters in Paris but this is the only common point of the two future opponents in half Thursday.
Gauff, who ranks 18th in the world at 18, is a phenomenon of precocity promised since adolescence to a great future, when Trevisan won this week the best ranking of his career, a 59th place, at age 28.
Winner of the 2018 junior tournament on clay in Paris, Coco Gauff took the upper hand on Tuesday over her compatriot Sloane Stephens, 7-5, 6-2.
The latter, 64th in the world, had reached the Porte d'Auteuil final in 2018.
A year after being stopped at the same stage by future winner Barbora Krejcikova, 7-6 (8/6), 6-3, Gauff has thus reached a new milestone.
"Last year in the quarterfinals was a difficult defeat for me, it made me stronger," she says today.
Victorious in her first WTA tournament in Linz in 2019, at 15 years and 214 days, the American can become the youngest finalist since Belgian Kim Clijsters in 2001.
The Trevisan Surprise
She will find a surprise guest on her way: the Italian Martina Trevisan, Tuesday faller of the Canadian Leylah Fernandez, finalist in September of the US Open, 6-2, 6-7 (7/3), 6-3.
The chaos therefore continues in the women's draw where, with Leylah Fernandez, a new favorite has fallen.
So far, Martina Trevisan's best career in a Grand Slam tournament was a quarter, already in Paris in 2020. After qualifying, she was swept away by future winner Iga Swiatek (6-3, 6-1).
Current 59th player in the world, the Florentine has never been ranked so high.
She chained against Leylah Fernandez her tenth consecutive victory after her first title in the WTA 250 tournament in Rabat, two days before her entry into the running at Roland-Garros.
"Rabat was very important, it was an incredible week and it was the first trophy of my career. I arrived here with a lot of energy", explained the Italian, the first representative of her country to climb in half since Sara Errani in 2013.
Named Martina by her mother in reference to Navratilova, Trevisan feels "no pressure" because of this name.
She even has the upper hand over Gauff: during their only meeting, precisely on Parisian clay in 2020, she had knocked down the American in three sets.
With AFP
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