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Ruthless Coco Gauff Beats Karolina Muchova In Straight Sets To Win China Open

admin — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 15:55:29 +0000

Coco Gauff overpowered Karolina Muchova in straight sets to win the China Open on Sunday for her second title of the year and eighth overall. The 20-year-old American and last year’s US Open champion stormed to victory 6-1, 6-3 in one hour, 16 minutes in Beijing. After a disappointing few months by her standards, including surrendering her New York crown in the last 16, Gauff adds the China Open to her triumph in Auckland in January. The sixth-ranked Gauff, under a new coaching team in the Chinese capital after splitting with Brad Gilbert last month, wiped away tears at the end.

It was Gauff’s third win in as many matches against Muchova, who suffered a career-threatening wrist injury and missed 10 months of tennis before returning this summer.

“It’s great to see you back on court. You’re such an amazing player and hopefully we play many more finals,” Gauff told her beaten Czech opponent.

“It’s incredible to see how well you’ve managed your season after so many injuries,” said Gauff, whose mother was court-side to see her biggest win since the US Open.

It proved one match too far for Muchova, who at 49 in the world was the lowest-ranked finalist in the history of the prestigious WTA 1000 tournament.

“You kicked my butt,” said Muchova, last year’s French Open finalist and a two-time US Open semi-finalist.

Gauff made a fast start, breaking for a 2-0 lead in the first set and then holding her own serve without conceding a point.

The young American was up 3-0 with barely 10 minutes on the clock.

The 28-year-old Muchova sent down an ace to get on the board but Gauff was in the mood and her serve — her biggest problem of late — was firing.

Gauff had three break points in the sixth game and converted the first to streak to a 5-1 lead against a shell-shocked Muchova.

Gauff rattled off her third ace of the match to give her two set points.

Her serving wobbles momentarily returned but she wrapped the first set up in 29 minutes on her third set point.

Muchova, chasing only the second title of her career, dumped out top seed Aryna Sabalenka in the quarter-finals and then beat Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen.

She belatedly found her feet at the start of the second set and broke for a 2-0 lead, only for Gauff to break back immediately on the way to a comfortable win.

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Coco Gauff vs Aryna Sabalenka LIVE Score, US Open 2023 Women’s Singles Final: Coco Gauff Takes On Aryna Sabalenka

admin — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 18:38:55 +0000

US Open 2023 Womens Singles Final Live Updates: Aryna Sabalenka (left) vs Coco Gauff© AFP

Coco Gauff vs Aryna Sabalenka Live, US Open 2023 Women’s Singles Final: Coco Gauff is set to take on Aryna Sabalenka in the women’ singles final at US Open 2023. American teenager Gauff defeated Czech Republic’s Karolina Muchova to qualify for her maiden US Open women’s singles final. The 19-year-old American secured a 6-4, 7-5 victory over the Czech player, booking her spot in the hard-court event. On other hand, Sabalenka fought back from the brink of defeat to overcome American 17th seed Madison Keys in a third-set tie-break in the semi-finals. Sabalenka won 0-6, 7-6 (7/1), 7-6 (10/5) to reach her second Grand Slam final.

Here are the LIVE Updates of US Open 2023, Women’s Singles Final between Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka:

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September10202300:49 (IST)

US Open Women’s Singles Final Live: Gauff’s moment!

American teenager Coco Gauff shrugged off a 49-minute stoppage caused by climate protesters to power into the US Open final on Thursday with a straight sets defeat of Karolina Muchova.

The 19-year-old from Florida advanced to her first final at Flushing Meadows after winning 6-4, 7-5 in a semi-final that took nearly three hours to complete due to disruption by protesters.
September10202300:37 (IST)

US Open Women’s Singles Final Live: Aryna Sabalenka in the final!

Aryna Sabalenka fought back from the brink of defeat to overcome American 17th seed Madison Keys in a third-set tie-break and line up a US Open final against home favourite Coco Gauff.

Keys served for the match in the second set but incoming world number one Sabalenka overhauled the 2017 runner-up to win 0-6, 7-6 (7/1), 7-6 (10/5) to reach her second Grand Slam final.
September10202300:24 (IST)

US Open Women’s Singles Final Live: Hello and welcome!

Welcome to the coverage of the US Open 2023 women’s singles final between Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka. While Sabalenka has won a Grand Slam title earlier, this is a massive opportunity for Gauff.

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Coco Gauff Marches Into US Open Women’s Singles Final With Straight Sets Win Over Karolina Muchova

admin — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 02:00:15 +0000

American teenager Coco Gauff defeated Czech Republic’s Karolina Muchova to qualify for her maiden US Open Women’s Singles final. The 19-year-old American secured a 6-4, 7-5 victory over the Czech player, booking her spot in a US Open final for the first time in history. Gauff will face either second seed Aryna Sabalenka or compatriot Madison Keys in Saturday’s final, who play later on Thursday. Gauff later revealed she was expecting protests during the tournament, but said she remained unfazed by treating the interruption like a weather delay.

“I thought it’d be in the final, I just treated it like a rain delay,” she told ESPN. “In DC and Cincinnati people were passing out (because of the heat)… so I treated it like that.”

The American youngster will be targeting her first Grand Slam title after battling to victory on the Arthur Ashe Stadium court.

Gauff, who is now the youngest American woman to reach the US Open final since her idol Serena Williams in 1999, had looked to be cruising towards victory in the first set.

The teenager broke Muchova twice early on to race into a 5-1 lead.

But her Czech opponent regained her composure and turned the tables as the fluency returned to her powerful groundstrokes.

Muchova fought back to break, cutting Gauff’s lead to 5-4 after the teenager had twice served for the set.

However, Muchova then faltered and Gauff broke back to clinch the first set when her rival hammered a backhand return into the net.

The second set was only one game old when environmental activists disrupted play, chanting “End fossil fuels”. One of the protesters glued themselves to the floor of the stands, forcing a 50-minute stoppage.

When the players returned, a tense second set unfolded.

Muchova held off a match point in the 10th game to level at 5-5 before Gauff held for a 6-5 lead.

Muchova then saved four more match points on her serve before finally succumbing on the sixth match point, hammering a backhand return long to leave Gauff victorious.

With AFP inputs

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