2021 French Open: Coco Goff is defeated by non-seeded Barbora Krečkova in the quarterfinals

Coco Gauff, a 17-year-old American tennis player, met her at the French Open on Wednesday. In the quarterfinals, she defeated unseeded Barbora Krejcikova 7-6 (6) and 6-3, ending her game at Roland Garros. Goff became the youngest player to enter the quarterfinals of the French Open since 2006.

After Goff took a 3-0 lead, Krečkova had to piece together an effort to comeback. Goff made 41 unforced errors and 7 double errors throughout the game to help him come back.

Goff had a total of five set points in the entire opener, but failed to convert any of them. On the other hand, Krejcikova was able to win the first set by scoring the last four points of the tie-break. She then scored 15 consecutive points and maintained a 5-0 advantage in the second set.

This losing victory is of great significance to Krejcikova. She has won two Grand Slam doubles titles with Katerina Sinjakova, but has never reached the fourth round as a single player.

“Everyone, they just label me, like,’Yes, you play doubles. You are a doubles expert.’ But I never thought I just wanted to be a doubles expert,” Krechkova said. Said after winning, According to ESPN“So I have been working hard. I just want to play singles. It’s really frustrating that I can’t get there. But I always feel…sooner or later, I’ll just go there.”

Krečkova is currently ranked 33rd in the world and has won the last 10 singles matches. She will now face No. 17 seed Maria Sakari in the semifinals.