Gauff and Sabalenka team up in viral TikTok dance before Wimbledon

Just successful lawsuit anyone mightiness person wondered whether determination was immoderate lingering animosity betwixt Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka aft their French Open final, the 2 tennis stars offered impervious that each is good by dancing unneurotic astatine Wimbledon and posting videos connected societal media.

A time aft dancing unneurotic connected the  Centre Court, the 2 tennis players faced much questions connected Saturday astir the aftermath of Sabalenka’s comments close aft the final, erstwhile she said her nonaccomplishment had much to bash with her ain mistakes than Gauff’s performance.

The Belarusian aboriginal said her comments were “unprofessional”, but not earlier she faced immoderate large backlash from fans and pundits, particularly successful the United States.

“TikTok dances ever had a mode of bringing radical together,” Sabalenka wrote connected her Instagram provender beneath a clip of the duo showing disconnected their moves connected the Centre Court writer to the strains of the 1990 deed Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) by C+C Music Factory.

Gauff, a predominant TikTok user, enactment up a video of the brace lasting unneurotic and mouthing on to a way with the words: “OK, guys, we’re back. Did you miss us? ’Cause we missed you.”

“The olive subdivision was extended and accepted! we’re bully truthful you guys should beryllium too,” she wrote.

Pretty iconic 😎#Wimbledon | @SabalenkaA | @CocoGauff pic.twitter.com/biHPvsSaBR

— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) June 27, 2025

‘Hakuna Matata and beryllium happy’

Now, with Wimbledon astir to start, Gauff is hoping everyone other tin besides hide what the top-ranked Sabalenka said.

“I’m not the idiosyncratic that volition substance hatred successful the world,” said Gauff, who opens her Wimbledon run against Dayana Yastremska connected Tuesday. “I deliberation radical were taking it excessively acold … It was conscionable truly targeting and saying a batch of things that I felt were not nice. I didn’t privation to substance that more.”

Sabalenka, who faces Carson Branstine connected tribunal fig 1 connected Monday, said she hopes the TikTok video shows that each is good betwixt the two.

“We are good, we are friends,” the three-time large victor said. “I anticipation the US media tin beryllium casual connected maine close now.”

Sabalenka reiterated that she ne'er meant to offend Gauff.

“I was conscionable wholly upset with myself, and emotions got implicit me,” she said. “I conscionable wholly mislaid it.”

Gauff did admit that she was initially tempted to deed backmost publically astatine Sabalenka, who said the American “won the lucifer not due to the fact that she played incredible, conscionable due to the fact that I made each of those mistakes from … casual balls.”

Gauff besides said she was somewhat amazed that it took a portion for Sabalenka to scope retired to apologise. But erstwhile that happened, the American was speedy to hide immoderate grudge.

“I preach love, I preach light,” Gauff said. “I conscionable privation america to beryllium Kumbaya, unrecorded happily, Hakuna Matata [“no worries” successful Swahili], and beryllium blessed here.”

Other players were besides pleased to spot the apical 2 women’s players getting on again.

“I’m blessed to spot that they turned the leafage astir it,” said Frances Tiafoe, who is seeded 12th successful the Wimbledon men’s bracket. “That’s the biggest thing, due to the fact that they’re the champion players successful the world. So those relationships you benignant of need.”

Then the American added with a laugh, “But besides it wouldn’t beryllium excessively atrocious if they were besides back-and-forth. That’d benignant of beryllium chill if they benignant of didn’t similar each other.”

Sabalenka and Gauff creation unneurotic aft a signifier league earlier Wimbledon 2025 [Dan Istitene/Getty Images]

Gauff vs Sabalenka head-to-head

Three-time Grand Slam champion’s nonaccomplishment to Gauff successful Paris followed her nonaccomplishment to the American successful the US Open last successful 2023, and she trails their head-to-head 6-5.

Asked whether she would relish the accidental to avenge the nonaccomplishment by beating Gauff successful the Wimbledon final, she sounded unsure.

“I don’t know, successful this case, possibly I don’t privation to spot Coco if I marque it to the finals. But if she’s going to beryllium there, I’m blessed due to the fact that I privation to get the revenge!”

A jovial Sabalenka was joined for the past infinitesimal of her media code by seven-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic, with whom she said she had a agelong chat this week aft hitting with the Serb connected the grass.

“Novak is the best. First of all, I was capable to deed with him. Then you tin chat with him. He volition springiness his honorable advice,” she said. “It’s astonishing to perceive the sentiment of specified a legend. We were conscionable chatting astir worldly that I’m struggling a small spot [with]. I’m truly thankful for the proposal helium gave me.”

Sabalenka was each smiles successful her pre-tournament media speech astatine Wimbledon [Hannah Peters/Getty Images]