Simply in case anybody might need puzzled whether or not there was any lingering animosity between Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka after their French Open final, the 2 tennis stars provided proof that every one is effectively by dancing collectively at Wimbledon and posting movies on social media.
A day after dancing collectively on the Centre Courtroom, the 2 tennis gamers confronted extra questions on Saturday in regards to the aftermath of Sabalenka’s comments proper after the ultimate, when she stated her loss had extra to do together with her personal errors than Gauff’s efficiency.
The Belarusian later stated her feedback have been “unprofessional”, however not earlier than she confronted some main backlash from followers and pundits, particularly in america.
“TikTok dances all the time had a method of bringing folks collectively,” Sabalenka wrote on her Instagram feed under a clip of the duo exhibiting off their strikes on the Centre Courtroom grass to the strains of the 1990 hit Gonna Make You Sweat (All people Dance Now) by C+C Music Manufacturing facility.
Gauff, a frequent TikTok consumer, put up a video of the pair standing collectively and mouthing alongside to a monitor with the phrases: “OK, guys, we’re again. Did you miss us? ’Trigger we missed you.”
“The olive department was prolonged and accepted! we’re good so that you guys must be too,” she wrote.
Fairly iconic 😎#Wimbledon | @SabalenkaA | @CocoGauff pic.twitter.com/biHPvsSaBR
— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) June 27, 2025
‘Hakuna Matata and be pleased’
Now, with Wimbledon about to start out, Gauff is hoping everybody else also can overlook what the top-ranked Sabalenka stated.
“I’m not the individual that will gas hate on the planet,” stated Gauff, who opens her Wimbledon marketing campaign towards Dayana Yastremska on Tuesday. “I feel folks have been taking it too far … It was simply actually concentrating on and saying plenty of issues that I felt weren’t good. I didn’t need to gas that extra.”
Sabalenka, who faces Carson Branstine on courtroom primary on Monday, stated she hopes the TikTok video reveals that every one is effectively between the 2.
“We’re good, we’re associates,” the three-time main winner stated. “I hope the US media might be straightforward on me proper now.”
Sabalenka reiterated that she by no means meant to offend Gauff.
“I used to be simply fully upset with myself, and feelings received over me,” she stated. “I simply fully misplaced it.”
Gauff did acknowledge that she was initially tempted to hit again publicly at Sabalenka, who stated the American “gained the match not as a result of she performed unimaginable, simply because I made all of these errors from … straightforward balls.”
Gauff additionally stated she was barely stunned that it took some time for Sabalenka to achieve out to apologise. However as soon as that occurred, the American was fast to bury any grudge.
“I preach love, I preach gentle,” Gauff stated. “I simply need us to be Kumbaya, dwell fortunately, Hakuna Matata [“no worries” in Swahili], and be pleased right here.”
Different gamers have been additionally happy to see the highest two ladies’s gamers getting alongside once more.
“I’m pleased to see that they turned the web page about it,” stated Frances Tiafoe, who’s seeded twelfth within the Wimbledon males’s bracket. “That’s the most important factor, as a result of they’re the perfect gamers on the planet. So these relationships you sort of want.”
Then the American added with fun, “But additionally it wouldn’t be too dangerous in the event that they have been additionally back-and-forth. That’d sort of be cool in the event that they sort of didn’t like one another.”
Gauff vs Sabalenka head-to-head
Three-time Grand Slam champion’s loss to Gauff in Paris adopted her loss to the American within the US Open closing in 2023, and she or he trails their head-to-head 6-5.
Requested whether or not she would relish the prospect to avenge the loss by beating Gauff within the Wimbledon closing, she sounded uncertain.
“I don’t know, on this case, possibly I don’t need to see Coco if I make it to the finals. But when she’s going to be there, I’m pleased as a result of I need to get the revenge!”
A jovial Sabalenka was joined for the final minute of her media handle by seven-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic, with whom she stated she had an extended chat this week after hitting with the Serb on the grass.
“Novak is the perfect. To start with, I used to be capable of hit with him. Then you may chat with him. He’ll give his trustworthy recommendation,” she stated. “It’s superb to listen to the opinion of such a legend. We have been simply chatting about stuff that I’m struggling just a little bit [with]. I’m actually grateful for the recommendation he gave me.”
