Coco Gauff secured a decisive straight-sets victory, propelling her into the French Open quarter-finals, a triumph rendered all the more amusing by her pre-match lapse of forgetting her racquet – an oversight that instigated playful banter with compatriot Frances Tiafoe, a fellow Roland Garros quarter-finalist who had previously committed the same faux pas. Tiafoe's jocular epithet of "adult" directed at Gauff prompted her rejoinder regarding the exigencies of maturity in professional tennis, though Gauff confessed to feeling somewhat disarmed by Tiafoe's ribbing; despite this interlude, Gauff is now poised to confront Madison Keys in an all-American quarter-final clash on Wednesday, a contest foreshadowed by Gauff's precocious success in the sport, including her Wimbledon breakthrough at age 15 and her maiden Grand Slam title at 19, achievements which have cemented her reputation as an unusually seasoned player, despite her youth.