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After a bruising few days for women's tennis comes soothing balm in the form of an almost perfect line-up for Saturday's French Open final.
Coco Gauff will play her first Major championship match at just eighteen, even though she seems to have been around forever. Her opponent will be world number one Iga Swiatek, on a run of 34 consecutive victories.
It could hardly have worked out better following the rumpus that accompanied the lack of women's matches in the new night session at Roland Garros, and the clunking comments of tournament director Amelie Mauresmo.
Coco Gauff (above) will play her first Major championship match at just eighteen years old
There will be no lack of star quality when Gauff, this remarkably poised American teenager with a beatific smile, tackles the Pole who is displaying a rare dominance of the WTA Tour.
Both players made it through for the loss of just four and three games respectively. Before they did so Mauresmo attempted to backtrack on her admission that she felt women's matches did not hold the same attraction as the men.
Gauff's relatively long and steady ascent to the peak of the game could hardly be better timed, and her 6-3 6-1 victory against Italian outsider Martina Trevisan never looked in doubt.
Her opponent will be world number one Iga Swiatek, on a run of 34 consecutive victories
Gauff is even younger than Emma Raducanu was when she reached last year's US Open final
Not someone who struggles to look
