Fifteen-year-old Coco Gauff made the most of her lucky loser entrance at the Upper Austria Ladies Linz, getting past Grand Slam champion Jelena Ostapenko 6-3 1-6 6-2 in the final to lift the first WTA trophy of her very young career.
Playing just the sixth tournament on the pro circuit, Gauff wrote a lot of firsts in her biography this week at the International-level tournament in Linz — the American recorded her first Top 10 victory (knocked out top seed Kiki Bertens ranked No.8 in the quarterfinals), played her first WTA quarterfinals, semifinals, finals and eventually won her maiden WTA title.