Coco Gauff, the two-time Grand Slam champion, secured her stay at Wimbledon by overcoming a difficult match against Argentine Solana Sierra. This meeting in the second round of the tournament marked the third time that the tennis players faced each other in 2026, highlighting Sierra’s growing competitiveness.
The Argentine tennis player demonstrated remarkable evolution in duels with Gauff. While in the first match of the year, at the United Cup in January, Sierra won just two games, she managed to push Gauff to the limit at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia, in Rome. On that occasion, Sierra took a 3-0 lead in the decisive set before conceding victory, losing six of the last seven games.
No recente confronto de quarta-feira, Sierra esteve ainda mais perto de uma vitória histórica. Gauff found himself 5-3 down in the final set and 7-4 in the deciding tie-break. However, the American athlete displayed impressive resilience, winning six consecutive points to seal the victory 6-3, 3-6, 7-6[7] in a duel that lasted 2 hours and 8 minutes.
This latest heroic display from Gauff in the deciding set reinforces a positive pattern in his career on tennis’ big stages. Despite a tense three-set defeat to Anastasia Potapova at Roland Garros the previous month, the American tennis player boasts an impressive record of 22 wins and just 7 losses in three-set matches at Grand Slam tournaments.
