How Gauff and Sabalenka Danced the Fight Away

By making preemptive peace at Wimbledon, Coco Gauff wanted to make sure a beef with Aryna Sabalenka wasn't grass-fed.

WIMBLEDON, England — “It was everywhere,” Frances Tiafoe said Saturday of the conversation after the French Open final. “I mean, [even] non-tennis people: everyone was talking about it. It was a big, big thing.”

Tiafoe was discussing the story that got as much—if not more—discussion as the clay dust settled after Roland Garros as the exalted Alcaraz-Sinn…