For most of the contest, Aryna Sabalenka sulked, pouted, and yelled at her coach from the court as Coco Gauff stoically and calmly outplayed the world's top-ranked women's player. "It feels great," Gauff told fellow American tennis player Sloane Stephens.

Gauff's second Grand Slam title is the vindication of nine months in which she remade her tennis, at risk of it all falling down.