WTA World Champion, Coco Gauff, set to compete in Berlin!

The world stars of women's tennis to be welcomed like friends ... With Cori 'Coco' Gauff (USA), another Top 5 player on the WTA rankings has confirmed her participation in the BERLIN TENNIS OPEN (14 to 22 June 2025). After the leading top player, Aryna Sabalenka, the reigning world champion and current number 4 of the world is the second top player to make her appearance at the WTA 500 tournament in the Steffi-Graf Stadium in Berlin in order to fine-tune her game right before the legendary Grand Slam classic on Church road.

'I always look very much forward to playing in Berlin. I am absolutely thrilled to be coming back in June and to be starting my grass court season at such a great event,' 21-year-old Gauff, for whom a lot of experts have predicted a really great career, emphasised.

Andrea Petkovic, Director of Excitement at the BERLIN TENNIS OPEN, is also looking forward to the exceptional player: 'Thanks to Coco's confirmation, the tournament has become even cooler! Fans won't want to miss the athleticism of Coco Gauff, who is an absolute sports superstar in the US,' Petko raves about the shooting star.

In the past, Gauff has proven that she can follow in her great idols Serena and Venus Williams's footsteps. Last year, the power player from the sunshine state of Florida crowned herself the unofficial tennis world champion by winning the WTA Finals in Riyadh. So far, in her young career, she has already won nine WTA titles, including a Grand Slam, i.e. the US Open 2023. In the final in New York, Gauff defeated Aryna Sabalenka in three sets – approximately one and a half years after the American had lost her first majors final against Iga Swiatek at the French Open.

It is quite possible that Gauff and Sabalenka will once again face each other in Berlin in June. The number 1 in the world was the first top player who confirmed her participation in the BERLIN TENNIS OPEN back in February.


Record-breaking Coco: First Wimbledon participation at 15 years and 106 days

Wimbledon and Gauff: no doubt, a story full of potential, however still without its fairy-tale ending! Like so many of her peers, the fan favourite is dreaming of triumph at the most important tournament in the world. The title that makes every tennis pro immortal, at least from a sporting perspective.    

Nevertheless, Wimbledon is the place where Gauff has already made tennis history: in 2019, at the age of 15 years and 106 days, she became the youngest player ever to qualify for the main draw of the classic grass court event since the beginning of the Open Era, introduced in 1968. Gauff won the first-round match against her idol, Venus Williams. Afterwards, the defeated icon said full of admiration: 'For Coco, the sky is the limit, she can achieve anything!' Gauff made it to the round of 16 where she was defeated by the subsequent tournament winner, Simona Halep from Romania. That same year, she celebrated her first WTA Tour title in Linz.

Coco Gauff, the world's highest-paid female athlete in both 2023 and 2024, still has a score to settle with the BERLIN TENNIS OPEN. Having participated in the tournament on the site of the LTTC 'Rot-Weiß' Berlin three times, she has yet to achieve her goal of winning a grass court tournament for the first time. In 2022, she was eliminated in the semi-finals and in 2023, in the round of 16. In 2024, the tournament favourite and world number 2 was defeated in straight sets in the semi-final against Jessica Pegula (USA), who went on to win the tournament.

28 singles main draw players and 16 doubles teams will fight for world ranking points and the record prize money of US Dollars 1.1 million at the BERLIN TENNIS OPEN in June.  Alongside Sabalenka and now Gauff, German hopeful, Eva Lys, has also confirmed her participation. At the Australian Open, she made it to the round of 16 as a lucky loser where she only fell to world number 2, Iga Swiatek.

Tickets for the world-class duels of the stars on Centre Court at the Steffi Graf Stadium start at Euro 30 and are available under Tickets. Entry to the Public Village and match courts 1 and 2 on the tournament grounds is free of charge.