Sabalenka v Gauff: Head-to-head, stats, everything you need to know about their rivalry – updated after Roland-Garros final
Sabalenka and Gauff have a close head-to-head record thus far. Here is everything you need to know about their rivalry
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World No 1 Aryna Sabalenka and world No 3 Coco Gauff met for the 11th time in the final of the French Open – with the American taking a 6-5 lead in the head to head as she lifted the trophy.
How many times have Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka played each other?
Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka have played each other 11 times.
Their previous matches are as follows:
2025 Roland-Garros final: Gauff won 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-4
2025 Madrid Open final: Sabalenka won 6-3, 7-6 (3)
2024 WTA Finals semi-final: Gauff won 7-6 (4), 6-3
2024 Wuhan semi-final: Sabalenka won 1-6, 6-4, 6-4
2024 Australian Open semi-final: Sabalenka won 7-6 (2), 6-4
2023 US Open final: Gauff won 2-6, 6-3, 6-2
2023 Indian Wells quarter-final: Sabalenka won 6-4, 6-0
2022 Toronto Round of 16: Gauff won 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (4)
2021 Rome Round of 16: Gauff won 7-5, 6-3
2020 Ostrava Round of 16: Sabalenka won 1-6, 7-5, 7-6 (2)
2020 Lexington Round of 16: Gauff won 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-4
How many titles have Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff won?
Aryna Sabalenka has won 20 singles titles, the first of which came in 2017 in Tianjin. She has won three Grand Slam titles, two at the Australian Open (in 2023 and 2024), and one at the US Open in 2024. All of her titles have come on hard courts except for three on the Madrid clay.
Coco Gauff has won ten singles titles, including two Grand Slams, at the 2023 US Open and 2025 Roland-Garros, and two WTA 1000 crowns. All of them were on hard courts, except two, which were both on clay – Roland-Garros and previously at the Emilia-Romagna Open in Parma in 2021.
How many times have they met in Grand Slams?
Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff have met three in Grand Slams, twice in finals. Gauff beat Sabalenka 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 to win her first major title at the US Open in 2023 and then again at Roland-Garros in 2025, while Sabalenka came out on top at the Australian Open in 2024, with a 7-6 (2), 6-4 win in the semi-final.
What have Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka said about each other?
Speaking about their rivalry after her defeat by Sabalenka in Madrid in May 2025, Gauff said Sabalenka has always been tough to play.
“I feel like she just got a lot better in everything,” she said. “Probably every time I play her is tough. Maybe she moves a little bit better, but she’s always been tough to play. I think she just probably is more confident, so that’s why the consistent results are happening, but she’s always been a great player.
When Gauff struggled with her serve in the 2024 Wuhan Open semi-finals, Sabalenka was feeling a huge amount of sympathy from the other side of the net.
“I was playing that match thinking, like, ‘Well, girl, I feel you. I feel you like nobody else.’ I know what she’s going through. This is really difficult. This is really tough. But I know that if she’ll be able to overcome this serve situation, she already one of the best players, but I’m pretty sure she’s going to be one of the greatest players.”
