Aug 10, 2025; Cincinnati, OH, USA; Coco Gauff (USA) reacts after returning a shot towards Wang Xinyu (CHN) in the course of the Cincinnati Open on the Lindner Household Tennis Heart. Necessary Credit score: Aaron Doster-Imagn Photos Coco Gauff started her China Open title protection with a 6-4, 6-0 win over Russia’s Kamilla Rakhimova on Friday in Beijing.
The second-round conflict began with the rivals splitting the primary six video games on serve earlier than Gauff took full management, successful 9 of the final 10 video games of the match.
The second-seeded American saved all 10 break factors she confronted — together with eight within the first set — and transformed 4 of her 9 break probabilities.
Gauff had extra double faults (5) than aces (4) however gained 66 % of her service factors and 51 % of her return factors.
“I am proud of how I performed,” Gauff mentioned after the match. “(Rakhimova) performed effectively beginning off, and I used to be simply getting used to the circumstances, however I assumed it was match general. I am tremendous joyful to be again right here in Beijing. Clearly, I had nice reminiscences final yr, and I am hoping to make some extra good reminiscences right here.”
Gauff’s third-round opponent is Twenty fifth-seeded Canadian Leylah Fernandez, who beat Greece’s Maria Sakkari 6-2, 6-0 in 74 minutes. Gauff has gained every of their earlier two matches, together with at this yr’s Australian Open.
Whereas these two superior with out a lot adversity, six seeded rivals fell to unseeded foes in second-round motion on the WTA 1000 occasion.
Czech Barbara Krejcikova defeated No. 9 Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia 7-5, 6-2. American McCartney Kessler defeated No. 20 Elise Mertens of Belgium 6-2, 6-4 for her fifth top-30 win of the yr. Australia’s Priscilla Hon knocked off No. 22 seed Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia.
In a match of home-country rivals, Shuai Zhang defeated No. 31 seed Xinyu Wang 6-4, 6-2 for her first victory in 4 profession conferences. She’ll subsequent face No. 3 Amanda Anisimova, who blew previous Britain’s Katie Boulter with a 6-1, 6-3 win.
Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic eked out a 7-5, 7-5 victory over Thirty third-seeded Magda Linette of Poland whereas German Eva Lys escaped a battle which lasted 2:37 to defeat No. 32 Iva Jovic 6-4, 4-6, 7-5.
Sixth-seeded Italian Jasmine Paolini coasted to a 6-1, 6-3 win over Latvia’s Anastasija Sevastova and No. 8 Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan outlasted Caty McNally 7-5, 4-6, 6-3. No. 15 Belinda Bencic defeated Katie Volynets 6-3, 6-3 and No. 18 Paula Badosa of Spain defeated Croatia’s Antonia Ruzic 6-3, 7-6 (2).
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