Gauff recovers to beat Jabeur & reach semis

American 3rd seed Coco Gauff reached nan French Open semi-finals aft recovering to hit Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur successful an absorbing contest.

Gauff, 20, showed her maturity and mentality to triumph 4-6 6-2 6-3 astatine Roland Garros connected Tuesday.

After a superb opening group from eighth seed Jabeur, Gauff continued to judge successful her crippled and took advantage of her opponent's level dipping.

Gauff was incapable to person a lucifer constituent connected Jabeur's service astatine 5-2 successful nan decider, and survived a break constituent astatine 5-3, earlier getting complete nan statement erstwhile Jabeur dumped an overhead long.

A passionate roar arsenic nan US Open champion celebrated successful nan mediate of nan tribunal indicated nan magnitude of nan trial she had travel through.

Gauff, who was nan runner-up successful 2022, is aiming for her 2nd awesome title aft claiming nan title successful New York past year.

She will play Polish apical seed Iga Swiatek, who hit her successful nan last 2 years ago, aliases Czech 5th seed Marketa Vondrousova successful nan past four.

More to follow.