Coco Gauff upset the whole 2020 Australian Open when she took on defending 2019 champ Naomi Osaka, the No. 3 seed, and won—easily.
According to ESPN, the 15-year-old rising star defeated Osaka 6-3, 6-4 in a match that lasted a little over an hour and, in the same breath, also became the youngest player to beat a top-five player or a defending major champ since Jennifer Capriati in 1991.
Gauff herself marveled at her win.
“Honestly, like, what is my life?” she quipped in her on-court interview. “Like, oh my gosh, two years ago, I lost in the first round in juniors and now I’m here. This is crazy.”
“Honestly, like, what is my life?”@CocoGauff can barely believe she just defeated Naomi Osaka on @RodLaverArena.#AO2020 | #AusOpen pic.twitter.com/xM7lDWYDsU
— #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) January 24, 2020
Osaka, 22, acknowledged that Gauff was “more aggressive” since the last time they played during the US Open.
“Her serve is way better than [when] I played her last year. But, yeah, it’s hard, because you learn more when you lose. The winner doesn’t really learn that much. I feel like I wasn’t really swinging freely and she was,” Osaka added.
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