Coco Gauff will win 3 Grand Slams and finish as year-end World No. 1 in 2026, predicts tennis commentator

Coco Gauff won Roland Garros in 2025 but struggled massively with his serves for the remainder of the season before leaving on a high note by winning the Wuhan Open. With the 2026 season incoming, predictions have already started on who will end as No. 1 in women’s tennis. Sabalenka has claimed the honor in 2024 and 2025. Before that, Iga Swiatek was at the helm for two straight years. Will 2026 be the year for Gauff? Jonathan Overend likes to think so. Thanks for the submission! The tennis commentator thinks that Gauff will be able to defend her Roland Garros crown while also coming out on top at Wimbledon and US Open. However, he picked Elena Rybakina to win the 2026 Australia Open. Gauff has never achieved No. 1 ranking as she came close to it when she became World No. 2 in 2025. Meanwhile, other commentators, Tim Henman went with Rybakina, who won the 2025 WTA Finals. On the other end, Laura Robson thinks Aryna Sabalenka will continue to stay at the top. Rybakina was picked as the unanimous winner of the Australia Open. Henman and Robson both went with Iga Swiatek to win the French Open. All three analyst went different while predicting the winner of Wimbledon. Henman placed his bets on Sabalenka while Robson was bullish on Rybakina. For the US Open, Henman believes America’s Amanda Anisimova will win her maiden Grand Slam title while Robson picked Sabalenka. Coco Gauff ends 2025 season as World No. 3 Coco Gauff suffered premature exits at all Grand Slams apart from French Open, which she won by beating Aryna Sabalenka in the final. At Roland Garros, she became the first American woman to win there since Serena Williams in 2015. Overall in 2025, Gauff earned two singles titles (French Open and Wuhan) and reached four finals in singles. After winning the Wuhan Open, she said: “This definitely gives me a lot more confidence going into the WTA finals, after the way the mid-part of the season went for me, especially in New York,” Gauff told WTA media. “It gives me a lot of confidence to try to defend that title. Obviously, winning it last year, I know how tough it is to do, so I’m just going to take it match by match and hopefully I can end up with the trophy.” However, at the WTA Finals, Coco Gauff could only win her match against No. 8 Jasmine Paolini while losing aganist Sabalenka and Jessica Pegula in the group stage. With that, she finished at No. 3 in rankings.
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