Though she has struggled at times, Coco Gauff has enjoyed a strong 2025 season on the WTA Tour so far.
The American has kept her place inside the world’s top three and recorded the most successful clay swing of her career so far.
After reaching the final of both the Madrid Open and the Italian Open, Gauff won Roland Garros to clinch Grand Slam title number two, still just 21 years old.
Despite suffering a number of shocking upsets at tour-level events, the US star has earned some impressive triumphs of her own, including one earlier this season she claims will ‘never happen’ again.
Photo by Julian Finney/Getty ImagesCoco Gauff picks her best matches of the 2025 WTA season
Ranking her five favourite matches of 2025 with ‘Tennis Channel’, Gauff picked her victory over world number one Aryna Sabalenka in the French Open final for the top spot.
“I went for Roland Garros. I mean, that has to be number one, just because I feel like that’s important,” she explained.
“Based on, like, emotional things, and what I felt like helped me the most, this United Cup [win over Swiatek] was a lot to me.
“I think I would rank this one number three, just because I was so nervous before this match, I didn’t want to let my team down, and I just felt like that was one of my best matches of the year playing-wise.
“This Madison Keys match, I think, was also important for me at Roland Garros, because of the fact that I had lost that first set, I think after having set points, and I still didn’t let that bother me, where I felt like in the past, I would have.
“And now we have… Ooh, maybe I messed this up. Well, I’m not a decisive person. We’ll do the Rome semi-final [against Qinwen Zheng], actually number two, because I think that was my longest match in my career. And I think that deserves a moment.
“After this, we’ll go last [fifth] as me beating [Sofia] Kenin, because I don’t think I’ve ever beaten anyone 0 and 0 before in my professional career. And I don’t know, I feel like that’s a cool thing. It will probably never happen to me again.”
Gauff delivered a double bagel against compatriot Sofia Kenin in the first round of the Miami Open in March.
Coco Gauff’s results at Grand Slam events this year
With the Grand Slam season officially over following the conclusion of the US Open, Gauff will look back on her major campaigns in 2025 with mixed feelings.
At the Australian Open, she reached the quarterfinals before falling to Paula Badosa in straight sets.
After her incredible run in Paris, at Wimbledon Gauff recorded one of the worst results she has had at a Grand Slam in her career.
She crashed out in her opening match against Dayana Yastremska, tallying a second first-round exit at the All England Club in the space of three years.
Finally, in New York, Gauff advanced to the fourth round of the US Open, but was overcome by Naomi Osaka.