Following a first-round defeat at Wimbledon that forced her to reflect, Gauff has been a player transformed.

In her very next tournament, at that Washington DC event, she won the title – her first at WTA 500 level.

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Two tournaments later came her first WTA 1000 trophy in Cincinnati, before she went to New York and claimed her first Grand Slam title at the US Open.

During that fruitful North American summer swing, Gauff went 18-1.

Swiatek might currently be on an 18-match winning streak, but Gauff very nearly equalled that in October.

After her triumph at Flushing Meadows, she kept winning, progressing to the Beijing semifinals to extend her unbeaten run to 16 matches.

Swiatek snapped that streak, and interestingly, is one of only two players to have beaten Gauff in the past six months. The other is Jessica Pegula, who has already been eliminated from Australian Open 2024.