"I'm gonna give her the benefit of the doubt. I'm sure it was an emotional day, emotional match," Gauff said of her opponent's comments about Gauff's victory

French Open champion Coco Gauff is responding to her opponent Aryna Sabalenka's comments after the women's final on Saturday. After the game, Sabalenka told the press in part, "I think she won the match not because she played incredible; just because I made all of those mistakes ... kind of like from easy balls."

Drawing on the painful memory of her defeat three years ago in the French Open final gave Coco Gauff just the motivation she needed to win the clay-court tournament for the first time.