Tennis champ Coco Gauff just won big at the 2025 French Open—and did so with a winning manicure to match. On June 2, Gauff handily beat Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia to advance to the quarterfinals and seemingly wore one of the biggest manicure trends of the season: cat-eye nails. Opting for an almond shape and dark navy color, the shiny metallic look complimented her New Balance tennis dress nicely.
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With nails so cool, we can’t help but draw comparisons to another (fictional) tennis icon: Tashi Duncan from Challengers. Played by Zendaya, Tashi wore a French manicure in the tennis drama’s flashback scenes. According to hair-and-makeup department head Fernanda Perez, the look was intentionally trendy to reflect her youth.
“That was Zendaya’s idea,” Perez previously told Glamour. “When we presented her the mood board, I said, “Okay, let’s talk about Tashi’s nails because it’s a detail and we can use them to show time passing. Maybe at the beginning when she is more girlish, she can have some pastel nails. Then when she’s in the middle of her crisis, something more neutral. And then go for a nude when she’s older.” And then Zendaya said, “We could do a French manicure when she’s young, because I remember I loved French manicures when I was younger.’”
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