Coco Gauff won the first Grand Slam of her career after coming from behind to beat Aryna Sabalenka.

The crowd favourite lost the first leg 6-2 but battled back to win in three sets, taking the other two 6-3 6-2.

The 19-year-old became the first American teenager to win the US Open since her idol Serena Williams did in 1999.

Gauff revealed that she used criticism to motivate herself to win.

“A month ago, I won a 500 title and people said I would stop at that. Two weeks ago, I won a 1000 title and people were saying that was the biggest it was gonna get. Three weeks later, I’m here with this trophy right now,” she said on court.

“I tried my best to carry this with grace and I’ve been doing my best. Honestly, to those who thought they were putting water in my fire, you were really adding gas to it. And now I’m really burning so bright.”

She later added in her press conference: “I’m an argumentative person. I’m very stubborn. My parents know. If they tell me one thing, I like to do the other.

“So I really told myself, literally up until, like, 10 minutes before the match, I was just reading comments of people saying I wasn’t going to win today. That just put the fire in me.”