Coco Gauff stuttered into the French Open quarter-finals with a 7-5 6-2 win over Anna Karolina Schmiedlova – with the comfortable scoreline not quite telling the whole story.
The American struggled on serve inside a windy Court Philippe-Chatrier but still had enough firepower to book a clash with either Iga Swiatek or Lesia Tsurenko.
If Swiatek sees off the Ukrainian later on Monday, it would see a rematch of the 2022 final when the Pole stormed past Gauff 6-1 6-3.
Ad «It’s really windy on this court so it was difficult to hit through the ball,» said Gauff afterwards. Roland-GarrosGauff wins first set against Schmiedlova before taking medical timeoutAN HOUR AGO «I hadn’t played on this court all tournament and I didn’t expect for it to be so windy.