Generational final battle: Sabalenka and Gauff fight for first clay triumph
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Saturday's French Open 2025 final will bring tennis drama of the highest quality. Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff, currently the world's first and second-ranked players, will clash in a match that could define the future of women's tennis. For both, Roland Garros represents an elusive goal - neither has won the tournament on Parisian clay. Twenty-seven-year-old Belarusian Sabalenka enters her first Roland Garros final in the form of her life. The Australian champion from this January carries an incredible streak of three consecutive Grand Slam finals. Her journey through the Parisian tournament was nearly perfect - she lost only one set and demolished four-time champion Iga Swiatek in the semifinals with a decisive set 6:0 in just twenty-two minutes. Gauff at twenty-one seeks her second Grand Slam title after her 2023 US Open triumph. The American star already stood in a Roland Garros final once in 2022, when she fell to Swiatek. Last year at the same venue, she won the...