Three records Cori Coco Gauff created en route to winning Cincinnati Open title

Published at :August 23, 2023 at 12:33 PM

Modified at :January 13, 2024 at 6:14 PM

The American will be one of the favourites to clinch US Open title

Coco Gauff beat Karolina Muchova 6-3, 6-4 at the Cincinnati Open on Sunday (August 20th) for the biggest win of her career and has now won two titles on North American hard courts in recent weeks in the run-up to the upcoming US Open 2023. Gauff will be seeded sixth at the US Open, thanks to her recent string of solid performances.

En route to the win at Cincinnati, Gauff broke three records as she stamped her authority in the final of the Cincinatti Open 2023. With her latest success and maiden WTA 1000 title, Gauff has now moved up to World No. 6 in the WTA rankings, while her competitor Muchova, registered a jump of seven spots from World No. 17, thus making her top 10 debut.

Coco Gauff is the first teenager since Caroline Wozniacki to win five WTA titles

With wins at Auckland in January, Washington D.C. earlier in August and most recently in Cincinnati on 20th August, Gauff is the first teenager to bag three titles in one season since Bianca Andreescu in 2019 and also the first teen to garner five career wins since Caroline Wozniacki in 2009.

The five WTA titles won by Gauff are the Linz Open in 2019, Parma Ladies Open in 2021, ASB Classic in 2023, Mubadala Citi DC Open in 2023 and most recently the Western & Southern Open in 2023.

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Coco Gauff is the youngest champion at the Cincinnati Open

Coco Gauff is the youngest player to claim the mantle of champion at the Cincinnati Open in the Open Era, having achieved this distinction at mere 19 years and 160 days. The American is also the first teenage champion at the event in over five decades, since 17-year-old Linda Tuero in 1968.

The new World No. 6 is the fourth American champion at Cincinnati since 2004. The other notable players on this list are Lindsay Davenport, Serena Williams and Madison Keys. She even got the better of current World No. 1 Iga Swiatek, coming back from one set down in the semi-finals on the way to her maiden WTA 1000 triumph.

Third youngest player to triumph at her first four hard court WTA finals

Coco Gauff’s ideal summer continues with a straight sets win over Czech player Karolina Muchova. Gauff is the third youngest player to win her first four hard court finals on the WTA tour, after Nicole Vaidisova and Monica Seles. The final at Cincinnati was the first time these two have faced each other.

The win at Cincinnati was her second in a row on home soil and her first at a WTA 1000 event. The French Open 2022 runner-up is quite at home on hard courts, with four out of her five career wins coming on the surface. Her track record on hard courts means she would be a favourite to clinch the US Open crown that begins on August 28th.

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