American teenager Coco Gauff stormed to her second profession singles title as she comfortably dispatched Wang Qiang 6-1, 6-3 on the Emilia-Romagna Open in her first clay-court ultimate on Saturday.
The 17-year-old Gauff additionally gained the doubles title with Caty McNally later Saturday, turning into the youngest participant to finish the singles/doubles sweep in almost 17 years, since Maria Sharapova gained each titles in Birmingham in 2004. That was simply 92 days after Gauff was born.
“I feel like all week I was just thinking about it (winning both), especially when we got to the semifinals and you’re thinking about it, and you’re like it would be pretty cool to win both the singles and doubles titles. And I’m happy I was able to do that today,” Gauff stated.
Gauff and McNally beat Darija Jurak and Andreja Klepac 6-3, 6-2.
In the singles ultimate, Gauff wanted simply 74 minutes to beat her Chinese opponent in Parma.
She gained greater than three-quarters of her first-service factors and fended off every of the 4 break factors she confronted in opposition to the Forty eighth-ranked Wang.
Gauff, who reached her first semifinals on clay on the Italian Open final week, dropped only one set in Parma en path to victory. She is gearing up for the French Open, which begins May 30.
“It means a lot, especially on clay which is not really I feel like a surface that people associate me with,” Gauff stated, earlier than including with fun: “It feels good, I like the dirt now. I always talk about it how I don’t like it but I like it now.”
Gauff has gained 20 of her final 26 matches on tour. In distinction, she gained 21 matches in the entire of 2019 and 2020 mixed.
Gauff gained her solely earlier ultimate in Lienz, Austria, in 2019.