Elina Svitolina wins Italian Open, defeats Coco Gauff in final

🏆🇺🇦 Elina Svitolina is the champion of the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome! In the final, our Ukrainian queen defeated world No. 4 Coco Gauff with a score of 6–4, 6–7, 6–2.

Elina Svitolina wins 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 vs Iga Swiatek The 2 time Rome champion has an opportunity to go for a 3rd on Saturday vs Coco Gauff. Elite defense with aggression has allowed Svitolina to defeat Swiatek and Rybakina in slow night conditions back to back. 📸 Jimmie48/WTA Tour

Elina Svitolina becomes the oldest player to get 3 consecutive top 5 wins at the same WTA 1000 event. 1. Elina Svitolina - 31 years & 235 days old. 2. Serena Williams - 31 years & 173 days old. Playing the best tennis of her life. This is the story of the year. 🇺🇦💙

Elina's on Fire! Getting right back to the red hot form she had at the start of the year, Elina Svitolina thwarts Iga Swiatek in Rome. The 2-time champion here, Svitolina overcomes a 2nd set lull to defeat the reigning Wimbledon champ, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2, to reach the final.

Elina Svitolina has Coco Gauff’s number. Svitolina knocked off Gauff for the third consecutive time this season with a 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-2 win that saw her win the Italian Open for a third time. www.nytimes.com/athletic/728...

Elina Svitolina has never lost a clay-court final on Tour (8-0)

Elina Svitolina with an emotional, inspired, and hard-earned victory over Coco Gauff in Rome and, honestly, the entire tennis world can feel good about this one. It means so much to her to win it for Ukraine and she absolutely emptied her tank. All heart. 💙💛🇺🇦🥹🎾

🎾 #Tennis #Rome Elina Svitolina defeats Coco Gauff to take the title in Rome.

Elina Svitolina wins Rome for the third time, defeating Coco Gauff 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-2 in a match that had everything, and lasted almost three hours. The #WTA has a lot of good comeback stories, but I find Elina's especially engaging. #IBI26

Elina Svitolina has won the WTA 1000 title in Rome. Ukraine’s top-ranked tennis player defeated Coco Gauff to claim her 20th WTA career title and move up to No. 8 in the live world rankings.

Congratulations to Elina Svitolina who this evening has won the Italian Open. She beat 3rd seed Coco Gauff 6-4, 6-7, 6-2 in the final in Rome. It's her first 1000 title since giving birth to daughter Skye, and the 3rd time she's won this title + the first since 2018.

8 - Among players to begin their career in the Open Era, Elina Svitolina is just the second player to win each of her first eight WTA event finals on clay, after Anna Smashnova. Accustomed. #IBI26 | @wtatour.bsky.social

Elina Svitolina breaks again, will serve for a title in Rome and to go 8-0 in clay-court finals!

Elina Svitolina caps off a magnificent title run in Rome 🏆 #IBI26 | @WTA

Elina Svitolina is the Empress of Roma once again as she wins her third Italian Open title, this time 64 67(3) 62 over Coco Gauff in a great match from both. #ibi26