Realising a long-held aspiration, American tennis prodigy Coco Gauff seized her second Grand Slam title at the French Open, overcoming world number one Aryna Sabalenka in a display of preternatural composure honed through the adoption of Olympic gold medallist Gabby Thomas's self-affirmation praxis, a technique which saw Gauff repeatedly inscribing her impending Roland Garros triumph in advance of the final, thereby cultivating an unwavering, almost preordained, sense of victory, starkly contrasting with Sabalenka's evident struggle to regulate her affective state under pressure, a testament to Gauff's newfound ability to externalise emotional burdens preemptively, thus facilitating an almost glacial equanimity on court, with her sights now set on the verdant expanses of the grass-court season, potentially encompassing a preparatory sojourn to the Berlin tournament en route to Wimbledon.