Coco Gauff, the youngest player ranked in the top 100 by the Women's Tennis Association defeated the Japanese Golden lady and the Australian defending champion, Naomi Osaka on Friday in the day 3 of the Australian Open.
The American tennis player with the 66 ranked in the world 6-3, 6-4 to booked a date with Zhang or Kenin in the last 16.
She becomes the first ever teenager to defeat a Grand Slam champion in week 1 of any majors event and youngest player to beat a top-five opponent in a women's tour-level match since Jennifer Capriati in 1991 and this could be her biggest win of her career.
The incident occured after the match as Osaka refuses to give the winner hand-shakes and turn it to embrace.
The yound lad felt bad but went ahead to hug the defending champion as a sign of respect.
Coco made the headline when she defeated Venus Williams in her first game in the competition.
It will be recall that Coco has won three games against Osaka when they met at the US Open last summer but went ahead to beat Osaka in the first Grand Slam of the year.
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