Gauff drew inspiration from Gabby Thomas, the women’s Olympic 200-meter champion at last year’s Paris Olympics, who kept writing down that she would be the Olympic champion in her Notes app in the lead up to the race.

Drawing on the painful memory of her defeat three years ago in the French Open final gave Coco Gauff just the motivation she needed to win the clay-court tournament for the first time.

Coco Gauff made history this weekend after she secured the French Open title — the first American to do so in a decade. And while her hard work and dedication to the sport are evident in her success,