She might be ranked world No.4, but in the past six months, the stats suggest Coco Gauff is the best-performing player in women’s tennis.
DRAW: Australian Open 2024 women’s singles
Since the beginning of August, Coco Gauff has posted the best numbers in women’s tennis.
Dating back to the beginning of last year’s WTA 500 tournament in Washington DC, which she won, Gauff has won more matches, and enjoys the highest success rate, of any woman in the game.
She has won 32 of 36 matches in that timespan – a winning percentage approaching 90.
| Player | W-L | Win % |
|---|---|---|
| Coco Gauff | 32-4 | 88.9 |
| Iga Swiatek | 28-4 | 87.5 |
| Karoline Muchova | 12-3 | 80.0 |
| Jessica Pegula | 28-8 | 77.8 |
| Aryna Sabalenka | 22-7 | 75.9 |
| *Minimum 10 matches |
Following a first-round defeat at Wimbledon that forced her to reflect, Gauff has been a player transformed.
In her very next tournament, at that Washington DC event, she won the title – her first at WTA 500 level.
BONUS: Download your copy of the Australian Open 2024 Official Program
Two tournaments later came her first WTA 1000 trophy in Cincinnati, before she went to New York and claimed her first Grand Slam title at the US Open.
During that fruitful North American summer swing, Gauff went 18-1.
Swiatek might currently be on an 18-match winning streak, but Gauff very nearly equalled that in October.
After her triumph at Flushing Meadows, she kept winning, progressing to the Beijing semifinals to extend her unbeaten run to 16 matches.
Swiatek snapped that streak, and interestingly, is one of only two players to have beaten Gauff in the past six months. The other is Jessica Pegula, who has already been eliminated from Australian Open 2024.
Swiatek sits in the other half of the draw to Gauff, meaning should both keep winning at Melbourne Park, they could only meet in the final.
Top-ranked Swiatek is unbeaten in seven matches so far this season, while Gauff is a perfect 8-0 in 2024, opening with victory at the WTA event in Auckland.
It marked her fourth final in this glittering six-month span, and she has won all of them.
Only Pegula has reached as many finals in the same period – Montreal, Tokyo, Seoul and the WTA Finals – but she lost two of them.
Gauff has dropped just one set this year. Already she has won three sets 6-0 – including in her dominant third-round win over Alycia Parks at AO 2024 – and three sets 6-1.
On Sunday she faces Magdalena Frech for a place in her first Australian Open quarterfinal.