Aryna Sabalenka used a punishing ground game to win the first set, but Gauff stormed back with stellar defense and steady strokes, for the 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 win.
With a stirring, three-set, back-from-the-dead win that sent the world’s biggest tennis stadium into a state of delirium, Coco Gauff, the 19-year-old prodigy who seemed destined for this since her early teens, captured her first Grand Slam title, winning the U.