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Roland-Garros wrap - Saturday June 7

Around the grounds at the Porte D'Auteuil venue on women’s finals day

Yui Kamiji / Trophée, finale double dames, Roland-Garros 2025
©Loïc Wacziak / FFT

Yui Kamiji with her women's wheelchair singles trophy

 - Lee Goodall

After four-time winner Iga Swiatek’s semifinal defeat two days earlier, a brand new women’s singles champion was guaranteed in Paris on Saturday and it was young American Coco Gauff who mastered the breezy conditions to claim her second Grand Slam title.

The 21-year-old recovered brilliantly from the disappointment of losing a nerve-jangler of a 78-minute first set to outplay and frustrate the world No.1 Aryna Sabalenka 6-7(5), 6-2, 6-4 after more than two-and-a-half hours of a gripping, tense, dramatic final.

Gauff adds her first Roland-Garros title to her 2023 US Open trophy and afterwards talked about how she has developed since losing to Swiatek in the 2022 Paris title decider.

Sabalenka - who has played and lost two major finals now this season - was bitterly disappointed with her performance, left frustrated at being unable to find the necessary level in the wind.

The tears were flowing late on Saturday on the same court when Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos won their first Grand Slam title as a team by beating Brits Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski 6-0, 6-7(5), 7-5. It was their fourth major final together and for Granollers a sixth, finally breaking his duck at the age of 39.

Japanese star Tokito Oda’s Roland-Garros domination continued as he secured a ‘three-peat’ of wheelchair men’s singles titles by beating Britain’s Alfie Hewett 6-4, 7-6(6). It is the 19-year-old’s fifth major singles trophy as a teenager.

Hewett and Gordon Reid did however claim their sixth consecutive RG doubles trophy by edging past Oda and his French partner, Stephane Houdet.

The women’s singles trophy went to another Japanese player, Yui Kamiji, who picked up her fifth Roland-Garros trophy with a 6-2, 6-2 win against Dutch rival Aniek Van Koot.

There was a second successive RG trophy for Israel’s Guy Sasson in the quad wheelchair singles when he surprised top seed Niels Vink.

In the girls’ singles Lilli Tagger became the first Austrian player to win a Roland-Garros junior singles title when she eased past Brit Hannah Klugman for loss of two games.

Niels Mcdonald beat Max Schoenhaus in three sets in the first all-German boys’ singles final at the French major.

Tagger and Mcdonald land junior silverware

Another pair of Germans Eva Bennemann and Sonja Zhenikhova took the girls' doubles title while Finnish-Polish tandem Oskari Paldanius and Alan Wazny are the boys’ doubles champions for 2025.

And so to the last day of tennis on Sunday which features another two finals - the women’s doubles (11am on Court Philippe-Chatrier) followed by the much-anticipated men’s singles showpiece when world No.1 Jannik Sinner faces world No.2 and defending champion Carlos Alcaraz.

Alix Ramsay provides a preview of that heavyweight battle - the first time the two have met in a Grand Slam final - while Chris Oddo takes a look at what’s at stake.

See you at 11am on Day 15…