19-year-old became the first American teenager to triumph at Flushing Meadows since Serena Williams in 1999
Sabalenka will be the new world number one on Monday after a remarkably consistent year in which she won the Australian Open and reached the semi-finals in Paris and at Wimbledon.
Gauff’s incredible powers of defence were beginning to look like the defining factor in the match and she maintained her momentum with an immediate break of the Sabalenka serve to start the deciding set.
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