Neither Coco Gauff or Martina Trevisan have previously played in a Grand Slam final. One will finally achieve that feat in this semi-final at Roland Garros. Gauff is the 18th seed and that makes her the second highest seed left in the women's singles. No guesses for naming the highest seed and if Gauff wins this match, she'll face either world number one Iga Swiatek or 20th seeded Daria Kasatkina. The American reached the quarter finals here last year but has managed to go one better this time around without dropping a set. The last eight saw her get a straight sets victory over fellow-American Sloane Stephens. Before that, she'd defeated Rebecca Marino, Alison Van Uytcanck, Kaia Kanepi and 31st seeded Elise Mertens. Gauff is up four places to 19th in the live rankings and reaching the Roland Garros final will take her up to 13th and that would be two places higher than her previous best ranking.
Martina Trevisan is already assured of a career high ranking after this tournament. The Italian began this event in 59th place (and that was a career high) but this run to her first Grand Slam semi-final has her in 26th place. She'll be 19th in the rankings if beating Gauff. Trevisan has one title to her name this year but that was at the much lower 250 series level. Wins at Roland Garros have come against Harriet Dart, Magda Linette, Daria Saville and Aliaksandra Sasnovich without any sets being dropped. She finally lost a set in her quarter final but beat 17th seeded Leylah Fernandez in three. Trevisan has one previous match against Gauff and won that at the 2020 French Open. That was a three-set victory but Gauff has greatly improved since then. Back the American to win this but it may well take three sets to do so.