Coco Gauff beats Madison Keys in 3 sets to reach French Open semifinals

Howard Fendrich · The Associated Press

· Posted: Jun 04, 2025 7:55 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Coco Gauff overcame 10 double-faults and the archetypal acceptable she's dropped successful the tourney to bushed Madison Keys 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-1 astatine the French Open connected Wednesday successful Paris, reaching the semifinals for the 3rd time.

It was a contention filled with plentifulness of mistakes by some Americans, who each has claimed 1 large championship. They combined for 101 unforced errors and conscionable 40 winners crossed much than 2 hours nether a closed extortion astatine Court Philippe-Chatrier connected a drizzly, chilly day.

The No. 2-seeded Gauff won the 2023 U.S. Open and was the runner-up astatine the 2022 French Open. She'll play Thursday for a berth successful different Grand Slam final, facing either No. 6 Mirra Andreeva oregon 361st-ranked French wild-card introduction Lois Boisson.

"I person a batch much enactment near to do," said Gauff, who raised her arms overhead past dispersed them wide isolated aft the past constituent against Keys, "but I'm going to savor this 1 today."

She started peculiarly poorly against Keys, trailing 4-1 and being a constituent from a 5-1 deficit. Gauff bowed her caput oregon sighed aft immoderate miscues. Then, suddenly, she got going, utilizing her velocity and instincts to agelong points until Keys — the Australian Open champion successful January — missed.

That helped Gauff get wrong a constituent of taking that set. But the 21-year-old based successful Florida double-faulted 3 times successful the tiebreaker, and soon was headed to the locker country to regroup.

That acceptable was sloppy. Gauff had 7 winners to 21 unforced errors. Keys has 12 winners to 28 unforced errors, 19 of which arrived from her almighty forehand.

"I knew that I conscionable had to beryllium capable to tally contiguous and arsenic soon arsenic the shot came short," Gauff said, "just punish her for it."

Repeatedly, Gauff scrambled this mode oregon that to get her racket connected a changeable from Keys that against plentifulness of different players would extremity the point. And often enough, it worked well, starring to a miss by Keys, who occasionally admonished herself with a slap connected her close leg.

"With her quality to screen the court," Keys said, "you're going to person to triumph the constituent aggregate times earlier it's really over."