Aryna Sabalenka says it "hurt to show such terrible tennis" in "the worst final I ever played" after her French Open loss to Coco Gauff.

Hardcourt specialist and world number one Aryna Sabalenka was told for years that claycourts were not her surface but on Thursday after reaching her first Roland Garros final she said that winning the French Open would mean the world to her.

Aryna Sabalenka called her loss to Coco Gauff in the French Open “the worst final” she has ever played after an error-strewn display on Saturday dashed her hopes of a fourth Grand Slam title. World number one Sabalenka won the opening set on a blustery day in Paris but watched the trophy slip from her grasp as she made a tournament-worst 70 unforced errors in tricky conditions.