Coco Gauff on Thursday defeated Martina Trevisan in the semi-final to make it to her first Grand Slam final. The 18-year-old will play world no 1 Iga Swiatek to capture the French Open on Saturday. 

The 18th seeded Gauff defeated her Italian opponent 6-3, 6-1. The two were 3-all when the American star put her dominant backhand on show to take control. She grabbed the last three games of that set.

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Trevisan, a 28-year-old from Italy who is ranked 59th, then took a medical timeout to have her right thigh treated and taped by a trainer before the start of the second set.

In the second set, Gauff used a backhand winner to go up 3-1. She has accumulated 35 service breaks through six matches in the tournament while winning all 12 sets she’s played.

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Swiatek, who is on way to win her second title at the Roland Garros, won her 34th consecutive match after eliminating No. 20 Daria Kasatkina 6-2, 6-1 earlier in the day. 

The Polish player was 2-2 in the first set. She then dripped only three points. She then won the last nine points and clinched the victory with her only ace of the 64-minute match.

Playing Swiatek is not going to be easy for Gauff. The American player said that she does not want to stress over a tennis match. 

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“I’m in a mindset now like: ‘It doesn’t matter.’ I mean, I’m going to be happy, regardless. My parents are going to love me, regardless. So I’m just going to go into it like another match. I mean, yeah, it’s a Grand Slam final, but there are so many things going on in the world right now, and especially in the U.S. a lot of stuff is happening right now, so I think it’s not important to stress over a tennis match,” Gauff said. 

And then, in a message referring to the recent series of mass shootings in her home country, Gauff wrote in marker on a courtside TV camera: “Peace. End gun violence.”