Coco Gauff and Iga Świątek find similar progress in different results at Italian Open‎

After nearly a year of relative chaos for two of the best tennis players in the world, clay is providing some stability under their feet. When the Italian Open women’s final gets under way on Saturday, one player very familiar with success at the biggest clay-court tournaments will be there, and the other, despite her absence, is closer than ever to being where she needs to be ahead of the biggest of them all. Coco Gauff, the defending French Open champion, will be on one side of the net. Iga Św