Coco, think of John Mulaney!

In case you missed it last night, No.3 seed and reigning Roland Garros champion Coco Gauff went down to the wire with one-time Serena-slayer-but-for-real-very-incredibly-nice-lady Ajla Tomljanovic.

Coco served for a straight set win, proceeded to get the yips and it was a truly wild ride for the remainder of the 2-hour and 57-minute first-round duel, which ended with a 6-4, 6-7(2), 7-5 win for the American.

In case you want to see what it felt like, here is John Mulaney being ALL OF US:

These are probably the points he was watching:

Coco gets Donna Vekic next.

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The Emma Stone story.…

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Here's an article from The Athletic on the rise of the American women, who are trying to keep their streak of Grand Slam finals going:

Starting with Jess last year in New York, the baton has been passed to Madison in Melbourne, Coco in Paris and Amanda at Wimbledon. Pretty good!

Round 1 is finnnnnnally in the books – and here are some quick takeaways:

• The men's draw is pretty much intact. Nothing massively surprising unless you're me, a moron, who picked Medvedev to beat Bonzi despite their H2H and also fully expected Stefanos Tsitisipas to barely win points. Wrong on both counts!

(Tardy) Tuesday Tunes

But I don’t care. I care. I really don’t care.

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• As for the women, Aryna, Iga, Elena, Jasmine, and Mirra all looked sharp. Coco and Jess fought through it. Watch out for Krej.
• WTA Bracket busters: WHERE DO I EVEN BEGIN?
  • Madison Keys being undone by her own nerves, striking 89 unforced errors and losing in three sets to Renata Zarazua?

• Alex Eala coming from 5-1 down in the third to beat 14th seed Tauson? I mean, sure, feasible, but....

• I had Vicky Mboko going through to the quarterfinals, but that's my bad because I was unaware that the kid wasn't fully healed from her wrist injury. Chapeau, Babs.

• But truly, the shock of the first round for me was Anna Bondar dropping six games to 12th seed Elina Svitolina. That's....just not a result you AT ALL expect from the veteran. And I had her through to the quarterfinals. So...

• Best Quote of Round 1: Everyone should watch the entirety of Madison Keys' post-loss press conference.

"I've had a lot of success, I've probably won the most matches I've ever won in a year. But then losing today – it's moreso the way I played today – it kind of sucks. But big picture, if you told me at the beginning of the year what I was signing up for, I'd obviously say yes.

"So...that's – allegedly – the beauty of the sport."

– – Madison Keys

• Best Photo of Round 1:

• Here are the second round matches I'm keen on:
  • Wednesday: Raducanu-Tjen, Kessler-Vondrousova, Jovic-Paolini, Azarenka-Pavluchenkova, Li-Bencic, Navarro-McNally, Ostapenko-Townsend; Fonseca-Machac, Bonzi-Giron
  • Thursday: Osaka-Baptiste, Vekic-Gauff, Anisimova-Maya Joint the GOAT, Kalinskaya-Putintseva; Sinner-Popyrin, Musetti-Goffin, Walton-Wong, De Minaur-Mochizuki

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Well that was a CRAZY weekend.

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• Thanks to everyone who has been joining me on Twitch this week! It's been really fun. I'll do my last stream of the week on Wednesday before I spend a few days hitting up my own personal version of Glastonbury.

What were your takeaways from the first three days? Holla in the comments.