BBC Sport · Sep 10, 2023
US Open 2023 final: How Coco Gauff fulfilled her potential in New York
Coco Gauff became only the fourth American teenager to win the US Open title - after Tracey Austin, Serena Williams and Pete SamprasShortly after she won the US Open title, there was a video doing the rounds on social media of Coco Gauff dancing on Arthur Ashe Stadium as an excited eight-year-old.
Eleven years later, the American teenager was standing in the same stadium - this time on the court lifting a Grand Slam trophy like she had long dreamed.
Gauff burst on to the scene as a 15-year-old phenomenon at Wimbledon in 2019, now fulfilling her date with the destiny many had predicted ever since - and with the charisma she showed even then.