No. 2 seed Coco Gauff held off a determined fightback attempt by No. 20 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova to advance to her fifth consecutive Roland Garros quarterfinal 6-0, 7-5 in 1 hour and 22 minutes.
The 21-year-old is the fourth-youngest player in the Open Era to achieve that feat, following 20-year-old Martina Hingis (1997-2001), 20-year-old Stefanie Graf (1986-1990) and 21-year-old Conchita Martínez (1989-1993).
Gauff lost in the second round to Martina Trevisan on her main-draw debut in 2020, but has made at least the last eight in Paris every year since — including a run to her first Grand Slam final in 2022.
Gauff advances to her ninth major quarterfinal overall. Having compiled a 13-5 record on hard courts through the first three months of 2025, she has continued to find her groove on clay, where she is now 15-3 and counting this season after making back-to-back finals in Madrid and Rome.
Gauff will bid to reach her fifth Grand Slam semifinal against either No. 7 seed Madison Keys or Hailey Baptiste.
“She stepped up her game in the second,” Gauff said in her on-court interview. “Some balls I hit a good shot and she would hit a winner on the line. If she wins like that I can keep my head up high, so overall I thought I played great.”
Alexandrova was undone by 15 unforced errors to only three winners in the first set.
