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British number one Johanna Konta’s hopes of another deep run at the French Open were ended by American teenager Coco Gauff in the first round. Konta, 30, lost 6-3 6-3 to the talented 16-year-old, who put in an assured performance in her first Roland Garros main draw appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A semi-finalist here in 2019, Konta was error-prone against a youngster who has been touted by many pundits as a future Grand Slam champion. Gauff faces Martina Trevisan next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Konta’s was the third British singles defeat of the opening day in Paris after losses for Andy Murray and Dan Evans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gauff bounces back from US Open exit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Gauff has been one of the most promising players on tour following her runs to Wimbledon and the Australian Open fourth rounds in the past 15 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She put behind her a disappointing first-round exit from this month’s US Open to put in a confident display against Konta, who never found her stride under the floodlights on a near empty Court Suzanne Lenglen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There were some nerves at times – with the American serving back-to-back double faults on set points and needing six set points before finally taking the opener when Konta sent a forehand service return into the net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She then went an early break down in the second set before breaking Konta’s usually strong serve four times in a row as the Briton was let down by 41 unforced errors, including several on the drop-shot that had been so effective last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Konta briefly threatened to stage a fightback when she broke Gauff for 5-3 but then succumbed in the following game when she netted a backhand on the American’s second match point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC British number one Johanna Konta’s hopes of another deep run at the French Open were ended by American teenager Coco Gauff in the first round. Konta, 30, lost 6-3 6-3 to the talented 16-year-old,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[693,845,846],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-coco-gauff","tag-french-open-2020","tag-johanna-konta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n