Gauff v Sabalenka live: French Open final score and updates

The big difference between the two players? Aryna Sabalenka made 73 unforced errors. Coco Gauff only made 30.

Sabalenka goes on the attack, launching undefendable returns to move ahead 15-30. But Gauff pulls out a big serve for 30-30 and then whips a forehand winner past Sabalenka at the net to set up championship point. Sabalenka’s response? She cracks a return on to the baseline with furious power to stay in the match, the steps forward to hit another cross-court winner and earn advantage. A huge break point… but this time Sabalenka’s huge forehand goes awry! Deuce. Sabalenka dumps a return into the net to offer up another championship point, and Sabalenka errs again. Coco Gauff wins the French Open!

She falls to her knees and the tears flow.

At 30-15, Sabalenka uses her power to push Gauff back and force an error, reminiscent of how she began this match. There have just been too many mistakes in between, as well as too much guile on the other side of the net.

Sabalenka holds and Gauff will serve for the title.

A solid hold by Gauff, and she’s only one game away from her first French Open title.

Break! Gauff responds perfectly with a break to love, rushing across the court before firing a backhand into the opposite corner to clinch it. What a mentality, to shrug off every setback in this match and keep coming.

Break! Sabalenka needlessly fires a backhand into the net when leading 0-30, and then shoots long to level the game. But the Belarusian then earns a break point thanks partly to a net cord which throws Gauff off, and she takes advantage to break back!

Magnificent by Gauff at 30-30, using the forehand slice to keep Sabalenka low and unable to use her power, before unleashing a backhand winner down the line. But Sabalenka fights back, taking the game to deuce and earning a crucial hold when Gauff returns just long.

At 30-15 down, Sabalenka spanks a forehand return way long and she immediately changes her racket. Perhaps the brief pause breaks Gauff’s flow because she follows it with a double fault, but Sabalenka makes another error near the net, failing to get a backhand over the cord from close range, and Gauff holds.

Break! Sabalenka hits the hot dog, running back to the baseline and improvising brilliantly to snap the ball back over the net between her legs, but Gauff is waiting with a killer volley and it comes to naught. That’s 30-all, and Gauff wins the next two points to earn the first break of the decider. She looks so focused here.