Coco Gauff is OUT of Wimbledon! No 2 seed loses in straight sets to fellow American Emma Navarro

Coco Gauff's hopes of winning Wimbledon were dashed connected Sunday erstwhile nan No 2 seed was beaten successful consecutive sets by compatriot Emma Navarro.

The American, seeded No 2 for The Championships, was beaten 6-4 6-3 by Navarro connected Center Court, pinch nan No 19 seed now into her first expansive slam 4th final. 

Gauff, who won her maiden awesome singles title astatine past year's US Open, grounded to capitalize connected Iga Swiatek's exit connected Saturday. Gauff was beaten successful conscionable an hr and 14 minutes.

While her first large breakthrough came astatine nan All England Club astatine property 15, erstwhile she became nan youngest qualifier successful tourney history and hit Venus Williams successful nan first information en way to getting to nan fourth, Gauff ne'er has bettered that result. 

She besides exited successful nan 4th information successful her adjacent appearance, successful 2021, past mislaid successful nan 3rd information successful 2022 and nan first information a twelvemonth ago.

The 19th-seeded Navarro, a 23-year-old who grew up successful South Carolina and won an NCAA title for Virginia, reached nan quarterfinals astatine a Grand Slam tourney for nan first time.

Gauff kept making mistakes Sunday and would look up astatine her Centre Court impermanent box, wherever 1 of her 2 coaches, Brad Gilbert, often stood pinch his hands connected his hips.

Her exit saw nan women's singles tie creak moreover wider open.

The top 3 women’s seeds are each out, arsenic good arsenic some of past year’s finalists. 

That leaves 2022 champion Elena Rybakina arsenic a clear favourite to triumph her 2nd Venus Rosewater crockery connected Saturday. 

Rybakina is 1 of only 2 top-10 seeds remaining successful nan women's singles draw.

French Open runner-up Jasmine Paolini, who is seeded seventh, will look Navarro successful nan quarter-finals.