“I didn’t even know there was separate rankings for singles and doubles,” Coco Gauff achieves a new career-high as she becomes the World No. 1 in Doubles

“I didn’t even know there was separate rankings for singles and doubles,” Coco Gauff achieves a new career-high as she becomes the World No. 1 in Doubles

Coco Gauff became new World No. 1 in Doubles after winning the 2022 Canadian Open

Teen sensation Coco Gauff along with doubles partner Jessica Pegula emerged victorious in the Doubles discipline of the 2022 Canadian Open in Toronto as the all-American pair defeated America’s Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Australia’s Ellen Perez 6-4, 6-7(5), (10-5). It was the second WTA-1000 title for Gauff and Pegula who had earlier won the Qatar Open back in February this year. Gauff is the 11th American woman and the 46th WTA player to occupy the top spot in the doubles ranking.

Gauff has been brilliant in Doubles over the past 2 seasons having finished as the runner-up in the 2021 US Open with Caty McNally and also in the 2022 French Open with Pegula as the teenager made it to the finals of both singles and doubles this year at Roland Garros. At 18 years and 154 days old, Gauff becomes the second-youngest player in history to become doubles No.1 with only Martina Hingis, who was 17 and 251 days in June 1998, ahead of her.

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Jessica Pegula breaks into the Top-10 of doubles as Coco Gauff moves to the top

Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula with the Canadian Open 2022 trophy
Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula with the Canadian Open 2022 trophy

Gauff and Pegula were the third seed this week in Canada and given their brilliant chemistry there were one of the title favourites, a tag they wholly justified with the title. “Being No.1 is pretty cool. I have no words. … I didn’t really know it was coming this week and what I had to do. But [Pegula] told me yesterday.

“As a kid, I’m going to be honest with you, I didn’t even know there was separate rankings for singles and doubles. But when I got on tour and when I realized I could do well in doubles, yes. … I wanted to. I mean, who wouldn’t want to be No.1 in anything?” said an elated Gauff who is now just 51 points away from entering the Top-10 in singles as well.

As for Pegula, she drops to World No. 8 after her semi-final exit from the singles event while she moves 4 spots in doubles to be ranked World No. 8 entering the Top-10 for the very first time. Gauff now holds 5945 ranking points in doubles, 290 points more than second-ranked Shuai Zhang who has 5655 points to her name.

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