\n The world No. 42 was in control throughout the first set tiebreak and appeared very comfortable against Gauff, who typically dominates opponents in the early rounds.\n <\/p>\n
\n The two-time grand slam winner appeared tight and unusually conservative with her strong forehand and serving, which let her down on Court No. 1. She double-faulted nine times in the match. The Ukrainian stroked 16 winners compared to just six from the American.\n <\/p>\n
\n On match point, Yastremska\u2019s deep forehand forced Gauff into an unforced error, to which the 25-year-old let out a victorious primal scream.\n <\/p>\n
\n The pair embraced at the net with Gauff quickly gathering her rackets while waving to the crowd as she walked off the court. Yastremska basked in the upset victory \u2013 the biggest win of her career.\n <\/p>\n
\n Gauff\u2019s loss, along with Jessica Pegula\u2019s defeat, marked the first time in women\u2019s major history in the Open Era that two of the top three seeds lost in the first round.\n <\/p>\n
\n Gauff has never advanced past the fourth round at Wimbledon and got emotional during the post-match press conference.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI don\u2019t really like losing,\u201d the 21-year-old said with tears in her eyes. \u201cI just feel a little bit disappointed in how I showed up today. I felt like I could have been a little bit better.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
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\n After the victory, the Ukrainian star, who reached the 2024 Australian Open semifinal, acknowledged that she brought the heat to the All England Club.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI was really on fire. I even have fire on my nails,\u201d she said while holding up her fingers for the crowd and cameras to see.\n <\/p>\n
\n Yastremska said playing Gauff is always special and was thankful for the support.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThese courts are made for the greatest players, so I\u2019m very grateful to be on this court,\u201d she said while the crowd clapped. \u201cI\u2019m actually enjoying really a lot being on the court and I love playing on grass. I feel that this year we are kind of friends,\u201d she said with a smile.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI hope that the road will continue for me here.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Gauff, who has now lost in the first round at Wimbledon two of the last three years, noted this was her first experience managing preparation and schedule after winning the French Open just over three weeks ago.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI felt like mentally I was a little bit overwhelmed with everything that came afterwards,\u201d she said after the upset loss.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cSo, I didn\u2019t feel like I had that enough time to do, I guess, celebrate and then also get back into it. But it\u2019s the first time of this experience of coming off a win and having to play Wimbledon and I definitely learned a lot of what I would and would not do again.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Gauff also gave credit to Yastremska\u2019s performance.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cShe played great. I mean, I saw the draw and knew it would be a tough match for me,\u201d she said.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 No. 2 seed Coco Gauff was shockingly upset at the 2025 Wimbledon Championships on Tuesday as…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-30993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114780369025223891","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}