Coco Gauff records 80th career win at a Grand Slam with latest Roland Garros victory

The upset bug has been going around Roland Garros over the last few days, with top players like Jessica Pegula, Elena Rybakina and—today—Jannik Sinner suffering shock early-round exits.

But that bug hasn’t made its way to Coco Gauff at all, and on Thursday she continued to power her way through the draw, battling to to a 6-3, 6-2 second-round victory over Egypt’s Mayar Sherif.

It was a special victory for Gauff, too—her 80th at a Grand Slam.

And it gets even more special—at just 22, she’s the youngest woman to amass 80 career wins at Grand Slams since a 20-year-old Maria Sharapova achieved the feat at the Australian Open in 2008.

The scoreline may have looked straightforward, but Thursday’s match was a battle from start to finish on Court Suzanne Lenglen.

With 11 breaks in 17 games, the serve was largely out of the equation, as Gauff and Sherif duked it out from the baseline with long rally after long rally, particularly in the first set, which lasted 71 minutes.

Sherif stayed close with Gauff early in the second set, too, but from 2-all the American broke away, winning the last four games in a row to close it out. She finished it off with a big backhand winner up the line, her 23rd winner of the match to balance out 23 unforced errors.

Meanwhile, Sherif finished with 18 winners to 32 unforced errors.

Of Gauff’s now-80 career wins at Grand Slam tournaments, she has by far the most at Roland Garros, Thursday’s win being her 29th on the terre battue. She also has 20 at each of the hard-court majors, the Australian Open and US Open, as well as 11 at Wimbledon.

Awaiting the No. 4-seeded defending champion in the next round will be either No. 28-seeded Anastasia Potapova or unseeded Katie Boulter, who played their second-round match later on Thursday.

Gauff is 2-2 against Potapova, losing their last two meetings, but has a 2-1 record against Boulter, winning their last two meetings.