French Open 2025 live updates: Women’s final latest score with Aryna Sabalenka leading Coco Gauff – The New York Times

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Aryna Sabalenka is up two breaks against Coco Gauff in the opening set of the 2025 French Open women’s singles final.
Gauff (2) is attempting to win her second major title after her 2023 US Open triumph. Sabalenka (1) is looking for her fourth major and her first on the red clay in Paris.
Gauff 1-4* Sabalenka
From deuce, a rollicking return at Gauff's toes and that's advantage back to her opponent.
Decent serve from Gauff… but in a French Open final, decent isn't good enough.
Sabalenka creams her return back past a static Gauff.
A sizzler of a forehand winner.
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That was seven straight lost points on serve before Coco saved triple break point.
If she gets back to level in this set, those three saves will have been a big turning point.
Gauff 1-3* Sabalenka
Super setup from Sabalenka, who draws Gauff in with the drop shot, before settling into a strong foundation and pinging a rocket of a backhand passing shot down the line.
Sabalenka goes hard to Gauff's backhand side, and it's long. 0-30. Gauff gives a little nod to herself in acknowledgement. But that's not what she wanted!
Another miscue off a duff part of the racket and it's miles out. 0-40 and three more break points. Sabalenka long, unforced error, and the Belarusian grimaces.
Big serve down the T, return long, two saved! And a third as she maneuvers Sabalenka into the corner then swats away a volley, imbuing it with the annoyance and frustration of the match so far.
Cracking serve again, advantage… but she nets. Deuce.
We saw Sabalenka use her first-strike tennis to knock down Iga Świątek early in their semifinal.
Świątek responded in two ways: flattening out her own strikes to match Sabalenka's, and returning from a bit deeper to get into rallies, in which she could move Sabalenka all about the court.
Gauff's forehand grip, like Świątek's, is extreme enough that flattening out is a bit difficult, and she doesn't have the vicious, spinning power behind her ball that Świątek could use to rip the initiative away from Sabalenka in the second set of their match.
So Gauff needs to do what Świątek did: extend rallies, move Sabalenka, take away the first strike. Her groundstroke artillery just isn't as heavy. It's going to be tough.
The wind's picked up a little, and may have contributed to that complete mishit from Gauff to fall down 3-1.
Gauff *1-3 Sabalenka
Not so good and then good from Gauff, who on the stretch can only volley a backhand at the net straight down, before ripping one beyond Sabalenka. Taste of her own medicine.
Now this is interesting. Sabalenka is tossing the ball pretty high for her serve and the ball is catching in the wind a bit, which she mentions to the umpire, before missing the first serve.
Again the second is good, and Gauff errs, 30-15. Gauff clearly trying to match the aggression and speed on Sabalenka's balls, and it works there as Sabalenka is rushed into netting for 30-all.
A near-unplayable serve at a potentially tricky part of the game. Ace. Gauff looks impassive. Ah, Gauff's eyes light up at a central forehand in the slot but she mishits it. 3-1.
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Takeaway from three games… Sabalenka is trying to attack Gauff's strength, which is her running.
She's moving the ball around the court rather than trying to hit through it.
That should pay big dividends if she can keep Gauff from camping in the back to defend.
And there’s the first double fault for Coco, often her Achilles heel.
It gives Sabalenka an opening at 0-30, which she tuns into a break to love.
Eight straight points for Sabalenka, who crunched a pair of backhands to seal that break.
Gauff 1-2* Sabalenka
Uh oh. Gauff goes wide, and worried about Sabalenka's brutal response to most second serves, overdoes it and double-faults. 0-30.
Stinging return, return plus one whistles past Gauff's left.
Sabalenka then sends Gauff careering to her left again, super get, before flipping her to the far right of the court. Again, Gauff has the foot speed to get there, but Sabalenka can calmly steer a volley into open court.
A break to love after a hold to love. Sabalenka is cooking.
There's the first drop shot from Sabalenka. Increasingly such an important part of her arsenal.
It works well, drawing a missed Gauff forehand for 40-0. Sabalenka holds to love to level things at 1-1.
Gauff *1-1 Sabalenka
Wow, Aryna Sabalenka laughs in the face of danger and looks jeopardy in the whites of its eyes. She flings loads of torque into a second serve and it's an ace out wide! You don't see that often.
Another booming drive to Gauff's right, 30-0.
Sabalenka has the silk as well as the steel, though, throwing in a drop shot and even the quickest player on the tour can't capitalise, spooning her cross-court effort wide.
Big serve, again, return wide. 1-1.
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It's a warmish afternoon, not much of a breeze. Pretty mild conditions.
Big noise for Gauff as she holds to 30 to take the first game of the match.
Seems like the crowd are pretty evenly split at this point, we'll see how that develops as the match goes on.
Gauff 1-0* Sabalenka
Gauff's first serve is wide but Sabalenka then goes long on the second, 15-0 in the first point of the match and a nice little nerve-settle for the slight underdog.
Two wild swipes after robust returns from Sabalenka, 15-30, but a big serve makes it 30-30.
Sabalenka is on top of the rally after eyeing up a slower second serve, but Gauff changes the pace with a slice and Sabalenka nets.
A seriously spinning forehand into the bottom-right corner of the court and Sabalenka nets again.
Top seed Aryna Sabalenka against second seed Coco Gauff.
On the red clay of Court Philippe-Chatrier, Roland Garros' show court, the showpiece at the 2025 French Open.
Gauff to serve first.
And it's live!
Sabalenka with (slightly) more miles in the legs.
Coco Gauff has played eight hours, 53 minutes so far at the tournament.
Sabalenka, nine hours, 26 minutes. Slightly more than half an hour's worth of time on court.
Not a gigantic disparity. Will that make a difference if this match goes the full distance?
Umpire Mariiana Veljović introduces herself to both players at the net.
Both eyeball each other across the net as they practice their swings and stretches.
Early mind games.
Pre-match photo done, some warm-up hitting on the way now.
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Silver headphones on. Wearing light blue, as she has for much of this tournament.
Coco Gauff strides out purposefully and smiles at the ball-kid, who hands her a towel.
Up next…
French soccer legend Eric Cantona looks as though he’s ready for the action to begin…

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