Sabalenka v Gauff: Head-to-head, stats, everything you need to know

The two have met nine times. Here is everything you need to know about their budding rivalry

Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka at the 2024 Australian Open (Icon SMI/Panoramic)

November 8, 2024

World No 1 Aryna Sabalenka and world No 3 Coco Gauff most recently met in the last four of the WTA Finals in Riyadh. It was the latest instalment in an intriguing developing rivalry, one that Gauff won 7-6 (4), 6-3 after an error-strewn performance from Sabalenka.

How many times have Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka played each other?

Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka have played each other nine times, with Gauff leading the head-to-head 5-4.

Their previous matches are as follows:

2024 WTA Finals semi-final: Gauff won 7-6 (4), 6-3
2024 Wuhan semi-final: Sabalenka won 1-6, 6-4, 6-4
2024 Australian Open semi-final: Sabalenka won 7-6 (2), 6-4
2023 US Open final: Gauff won 2-6, 6-3, 6-2
2023 Indian Wells quarter-final: Sabalenka won 6-4, 6-0
2022 Toronto Round of 16: Gauff won 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (4)
2021 Rome Round of 16: Gauff won 7-5, 6-3
2020 Ostrava Round of 16: Sabalenka won 1-6, 7-5, 7-6 (2)
2020 Lexington Round of 16: Gauff won 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-4

How many titles have Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff won?

Aryna Sabalenka has won 17 singles titles, the first of which came in 2017 in Tianjin. She has won three Grand Slam titles, two at the Australian Open (in 2023 and 2024), and one at the US Open in 2024. All of her titles have come on hard courts except for two on the Madrid clay.

Coco Gauff has won eight singles titles, including one Grand Slam, at the 2023 US Open, and two WTA 1000 crowns. All of them were on hard courts, except one, which was on clay at the Emilia-Romagna Open in 2021.

What have Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka said about each other?

When Gauff struggled with her serve in the 2024 Wuhan Open semi-finals, Sabalenka was feeling a huge amount of sympathy from the other side of the net.

“I was playing that match thinking, like, ‘Well, girl, I feel you. I feel you like nobody else.’ I know what she’s going through. This is really difficult. This is really tough. But I know that if she’ll be able to overcome this serve situation, she already one of the best players, but I’m pretty sure she’s going to be one of the greatest players.”