{"id":7003,"date":"2025-06-05T17:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T17:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/coco-gouf-blows-off-lloyds-boisson-and-faces-sabalenka-in-the-top-two-finals\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T17:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T17:30:18","slug":"coco-gouf-blows-off-lloyds-boisson-and-faces-sabalenka-in-the-top-two-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/coco-gouf-blows-off-lloyds-boisson-and-faces-sabalenka-in-the-top-two-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gouf blows off Lloyds Boisson and faces Sabalenka in the top two finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Coco Gauff reached his second final with Roland Garros by beating Roland Boisson 6-1, 6-2 on Thursday to end the incredibly upset run by French wildcard entries.<\/p>\n<p>The victory by No. 2 Gauff set the blockbuster championship match against No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka is a three-time major champion and took the shot in fourth place by finishing Iga Swiatek&#8217;s 26-match French Open victory streak. Sabalenka&#8217;s 7-6 (1), 4-6, 6-0 semi-final victory prevented Swiatek from becoming the first woman to win four consecutive championships in Paris during the Open era (since 1968).<\/p>\n<p>This marks the second No. 2 women&#8217;s final at the French Open in the last 30 years, and is number one in the Grand Slam since the second Caroline Wozniacki defeated No. 1 Simona Halep at the 2018 Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p>It was also a rematch at the 2023 US Open Finals, where Gauff beat Sabalenka to win her first major trophy at the age of 19.<\/p>\n<p>Gough was runner-up at Roland Garros&#8217; Sweet in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked 361st in the world, Boisson defeated world No. 3 Jessica Pegula and No. 6 Mirra Andreeva in the previous round, but appeared to have contracted against Gauff. However, the 22-year-old will pocket a carrier that changes 690,000 euros ($789,567) in his prize money.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to the report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coco Gauff reached his second final with Roland Garros by beating Roland Boisson 6-1, 6-2 on Thursday to end the incredibly upset run by French wildcard entries. The victory by No. 2 Gauff set the blockbuster championship match against No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka on Saturday. Sabalenka is a three-time major champion and took the shot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2070,1955,57,112,111,58,1974,224,24,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-7003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-blows","9":"tag-boisson","10":"tag-coco","11":"tag-faces","12":"tag-finals","13":"tag-gouf","14":"tag-lloyds","15":"tag-sabalenka","16":"tag-tennis","17":"tag-top"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}