Coco Gauff is a rising US ____ star. On Saturday, the 19-year-old won her first ____ championship by beating Aryna Sabalenka. Gauff’s win makes her the ____ American to win a major tennis championship since ____. The US Open is one of the four most ____ tennis tournaments in the ____ – it’s known as a “Grand Slam” tournament. The US Open is the fourth Grand Slam tournament this year, and took place in ____. Sabalenka, who is from ____, played ____ in the first set, and Gauff seemed to be struggling. Sabalenka won the first set ____. But Gauff didn’t give up. She began to play better in the second set, scrambling for every ball. She wound up winning the second set ____, and tying things up. The New York crowd ____ Gauff loudly, and that seemed to help. It also helped that Sabalenka began making more and more ____. Gauff took the third set, 6-2. As the match ended, Gauff dropped to the court in relief and joy. Later, she made her way into the stands to hug her parents. With the win, Gauff became the youngest American, male or female, to win a Grand Slam championship since 1999. That’s when Serena Williams won the US Open at ____. Gauff has been a rising star for a while. She first came to the attention of tennis fans when she beat tennis great Venus Williams at ____n in 2019, when she was 15. As a young Black athlete, Serena and Venus Williams had always been her ____. Last year, for the first time, Gauff made it to the final of a Grand Slam tournament, the ____. But she lost to Iga Swiatek. Since then, Gauff has been working hard to improve her game. She has also focused on her mental game. After losing in the first round at Wimbledon this year, Gauff hired a ____. Though Gauff is used to being in the spotlight, she was very aware of the crowd, and of the number of famous people who were watching the match. One of those people was ____ Barack Obama, who later ____ Gauff. Gauff wasn’t just tested on the court. Like many pro athletes, she also had to face ____ comments on ____. But she didn’t get upset by the comments. Instead, Gauff said that they actually helped her. “That just put the fire in me,” she said. “Right now I’m just feeling ____ and a very, very small bit of relief,” Gauff said. “Because honestly, at this point, I was doing it for myself and ____.”

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