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Oct 12, 2025, 11:46 PM ET

WUHAN, China — Coco Gauff reeled off four straight games to beat Jessica Pegula 6-4, 7-5 and win the Wuhan Open on Sunday in an all-American final.

Gauff, 21, won her second title of the year, having claimed the French Open on clay, and she now has 11 career titles.

“Winning every match (in the tournament) in straight sets, I don’t know if I’ve done that before on a title run,” Gauff said. “I just felt like I was really proud of what I accomplished this week, regardless of the result today.”

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The third-ranked Gauff served to save the second set at 5-3 down. She held and then broke the sixth-ranked Pegula to love for 5-5.

Pegula’s forehand volley at the net landed wide to give Gauff a first match point and, with Pegula on second serve, she clinched it with a forehand winner following a brief rally.

The 31-year-old Pegula rallied to beat top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka in the semifinals. But this time she lost momentum and missed out on a 10th career title as Gauff became the second American to claim the Wuhan title after Venus Williams in 2015.

It was their seventh career meeting and first in a final. Pegula leads 4-3 overall against Gauff, with whom she has won several WTA doubles titles.

“We’ve spent a lot of time together and, even though I’m a bit older, I always admire and respect her so much,” Pegula said of Gauff. “She’s just so mature for her age.”

Gauff improved to 11-3 in finals; Pegula dropped to 9-11.

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Coco Gauff reeled off four straight games to beat Jessica Pegula 6-4, 7-5 and win the Wuhan Open on Sunday in an all-American final.

The 21-year-old Gauff won her second title of the year – her first was the French Open – and she now has 11 career titles.

The world No 3 found herself down 0-3 in the second set, then served to save it at 3-5 down. She held and then broke the Pegula to love for 5-5. Pegulaâ€s forehand volley at the net landed wide to give Gauff a first match point and, with Pegula on second serve, she clinched the contest with a forehand winner following a brief rally.

Pegula had staged a comeback of her own to beat world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the semi-finals. But this time she lost momentum and missed out on a 10th career title as Gauff became the second American to claim the Wuhan title, after Venus Williams in 2015.

It was their seventh career meeting and first in a final. Pegula leads 4-3 overall against Gauff, with whom she has won several doubles titles. Gauff complimented her opponent after the match.

“When I came on tour, you were one of the first people to be nice to me and welcome me with open arms. And that really goes a long way and still goes a long way,†Gauff said during the trophy presentation. “So I appreciate you. And itâ€s great to finally play in a final against you.â€

Pegulaâ€s last eight matches have all gone the distance, and she has won seven of them.

“Youâ€ve been playing a lot of three-setters – youâ€re a three-set queen,†Gauff said. “Iâ€d like to congratulate you on an incredible tournament. I was determined not to let you get there today because I felt the odds would be in your favour in a third set.â€

Gauff improved to 11-3 in finals; Pegula dropped to 9-11. The win adds to Gauffâ€s WTA 1000 triumphs in Cincinnati (2023) and Beijing (2024) and marks her third final at this level in 2025 after runner-up finishes in Madrid and Rome.

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Oct 11, 2025, 09:34 AM ET

Coco Gauff had more struggles with her serve but overcame seven double faults to beat Jasmine Paolini 6-4, 6-3 on Saturday and reach the Wuhan Open final.

Gauff will face Jessica Pegula in Sunday’s title match after her fellow American came from behind to oust top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (2).

The third-ranked Gauff edged Paolini by winning the battle of converted breaks 7-5 as both top-10 players struggled with their service games.

Gauff fought back from three breaks in the second set, which included a run of five consecutive double faults, and won the final four games to advance to the final.

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“I did what I needed to do to get through,” Gauff said.

Gauff, 21, who changed her serving coach in August, leads the women’s circuit this season with 378 double faults, over 120 more than the next player.

But she also excelled in another stat: Her 13 career wins over top-10 players at WTA 1000 events are the most by any player before turning 22 since 2009, the circuit said.

The fifth-ranked Paolini had eliminated Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek in the quarterfinals and had won her previous three matches against Gauff, all played this season.

Pegula’s win set up only the third all-American WTA 1000 final since its inception in 2009, having also contested the last one in 2024 in Toronto when she defeated Amanda Anisimova in three sets.

Sabalenka was the three-time defending champion and boasted a 20-match winning streak at the tournament.

The Associated Press and PA contributed to this report.

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Jessica Pegula was twice broken while serving for the match in the third set but recovered to edge Hailey Baptiste in a tight tiebreaker Wednesday and advance at the Wuhan Open.

Sixth-seeded Pegula beat her fellow American 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (6) on her seventh match point to reach the third round.

Pegula, who lost in the China Open semifinals last week, will next play ninth-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova, who beat American Ann Li 7-6 (5), 6-2.

No. 3 Coco Gauff, coming off a semifinal loss to eventual champion Amanda Anisimova at the China Open, breezed into the next round with a 6-1, 6-0 win over Moyuka Uchijima in 51 minutes.

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No. 11 Naomi Osaka was upset by unseeded Linda Noskova 7-6 (2), 6-3. The 20-year-old Czech player was defeated by Anisimova in the final of the China Open on Sunday.

Noskova, ranked 17th, will next face either Jaqueline Cristian or Elena Rybakina.

No. 16 Liudmila Samsonova rallied to beat 2020 Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin 3-6, 6-3, 6-1, and qualifier KateÅina Siniaková beat Maya Joint 6-3, 6-1.

In the third round, Samsonova will face US Open champion Aryna Sabalenka, who defeated Rebecca Sramkova 4-6, 6-3, 6-1.

The top-ranked Sabalenka has had an amazing run in Wuhan. Her record is 18-0 while winning titles in 2018, 2019 and 2024. She took a Greek holiday after her second consecutive win at Flushing Meadows and withdrew from last week’s China Open, another WTA 1000-level event.

“I knew after that little break … it will be not that easy to get back in my rhythm. I’m really glad that in the second set I found my game and stepped in, and I think I played really great,” Sabalenka said. “I’m super happy to be back. I’ve won a lot of tournaments in China. It feels like home in this stadium, and I really hope I can go all the way.”

Sabalenka broke her 68th-ranked opponent in the opening game of the final set and converted her second match point to win in almost two hours.

After Sramkova broke Sabalenka twice to take the opening set, Sabalenka started her rally with a break in the fourth game of the second set and jumped to a 4-1 lead. She saved four break points in the seventh game.

Karolina Muchova became the latest player to succumb to the heat and humidity, withdrawing from her match while trailing Magdalena Frech 7-6 (1), 4-1.

The Associated Press and PA contributed to this report.

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Amanda Anisimova continued a stellar season in which she has finished as runner-up at Wimbledon and the US Open by advancing to her second WTA 1000 final of the year, outclassing Coco Gauff, the defending champion, 6-1, 6-2 in the semi-finals of the China Open.

Seeded third in Beijing, the 24-year-old American now has a 2-1 edge in her head-to-head record against her compatriot Gauff.

Anisimova bludgeoned her way to a 5-0 advantage in the opening set before the second seed got on the board to make it 5-1. The second set unfolded in a similar fashion, with Anisimova building a commanding 5-0 lead. Although Gauff fought back to win the next two games, Anisimova sealed the victory in 58 minutes.

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“I was able to put on a really good performance and I knew I was going to have to play really well against Coco if I wanted to get the win. Iâ€m really excited to be in the final,†Anisimova said.

“Iâ€ve been saying every time Iâ€ve walked on court and won my match that I love playing here and the crowd support has been so amazing since the first day I got here. I really think thatâ€s carried me through this entire tournament. Hopefully everyone can come out and support me in the final.â€

Next up for the world No 4 is either the American fifth seed, Jessica Pegula, or the Czech 26th seed, Linda Noskova, who play in the second semi-final later on Saturday.

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Amanda Anisimova dropped just three games as she ousted defending champion Coco Gauff to reach the China Open final.

Wimbledon and US Open finalist Anisimova took just 58 minutes to cruise past her American compatriot 6-1 6-2.

Anisimova has climbed to world number four during a stellar season and showed her class in dismantling French Open champion Gauff.

She lost just five points on her first serve in Beijing and won the first five games of the match in a dominant display.

“I was able to put on a really good performance,” Anisimova said.

“I knew I was going to have to play really well against Coco if I wanted to get the win and I’m really excited to be in the final.”

Gauff’s only prior loss on Beijing’s main court was to Iga Swiatek in 2023, also in the semi-finals.

She was out of sorts throughout, serving five double faults and hitting a slew of shots long and into the net.

Anisimova will play Linda Noskova in Sunday’s final after the Czech saved three match points to beat Jessica Pegula 6-3 1-6 7-6 (8-6)

American Pegula served for the match at 6-5 up in the third set and held three match points on her serve before Noskova responded.

Noskova forced a deciding tie-break and missed two match points of her own before converting on a Pegula error.

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Defending champion Coco Gauff beat Eva Lys in straight sets to reach her third consecutive China Open semi-final.

The world number three took one hour and 28 minutes to overcome her German opponent 6-3 6-4.

Gaff, a two-time Grand Slam winner, broke Lys three times in the opening set, converting three of her four break point opportunities.

“I’m happy with how I played – she’s a tough opponent and she hit some incredible shots on the run but I tried my best to play aggressive and good tennis,” said Gauff, who is seeded third for the tounament.

“I think staying confident in my game [was important]. Not being too passive when I had the lead, I played one passive point in the last game but after that I played good tennis.”

The 21-year-old, who has struggled with her serve at times this season, had an impressive 79% first serve percentage throughout the match.

Guaff, who was knocked out of the opening round of Wimbledon after winning the French Open earlier this year, is now the highest-ranked player left in the competition.

She will face American compatriot Amanda Anisimova in the last four.

Anisimova, seeded second, came from a set down to beat Italy’s Jasmine Paolini 6-7 (4-7) 6-3 6-4 and will play in her sixth semi-final appearance of the year.

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Defending champion Gauff came through an error-strewn third-round match at the China Open, saying “I did what I needed to do to win” against Fernandez.

She eventually won a tight encounter in three sets – 6-4 4-6 7-5 – but the problems with her serve that brought the American second seed to tears at the US Open resurfaced in Beijing.

The 21-year-old two-time Grand Slam champion served nine double faults and was broken seven times in the match.

Both players struggled with their serve, with 15 breaks in total throughout, including eight in the final set – three on Gauff’s serve and five on Fernandez’s.

Gauff served twice for the match from 5-2 up, only to be broken on both occasions by the Canadian world number 25, but she gathered herself at 5-5 to break straight back and finally served out the match, sealing victory on her second match point.

“It was very physical, we were going back and forth,” Gauff said in her on-court interview.

“Obviously the third set I was playing pretty well. I know I could have served a little bit better, but I did what I needed to do to win today.”

Meanwhile, top seed Jannik Sinner will play unseeded Hungarian Fabian Marozsan in the quarter-finals of the men’s event in Beijing on Monday.

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Sep 28, 2025, 05:55 AM ET

BEIJING — French Open winner Coco Gauff was forced to go the distance against Leylah Fernandez before closing out a tight three-setter 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 on Sunday to advance to the third round at the China Open.

The defending champion and a firm crowd favorite in Beijing overcame a second set stumble and then struggled to serve out the match in the third, before breaking Fernandez in the 12th game of the deciding set to clinch it.

Gauff will next face No. 16 Belinda Bencic or Australian Priscilla Hon in the WTA 1000-series tournament.

In earlier matches Sunday, Eva Lys beat No. 10 Elena Rybakina 6-3, 1-6, 6-4 and American McCartney Kessler was leading Barbora Krejcikova 1-6, 7-5, 3-0 when the Czech player retired from the match.

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The tournament is being held concurrently with an ATP 500 men’s tournament.

A day after becoming the latest tennis star to make an apology to Chinese fans, Lorenzo Musetti had a less eventful straight sets victory over tour veteran Adrian Mannarino 6-3, 6-3 in a second round match.

Earlier, Learner Tien beat Flavio Cobolli 6-3, 6-2 to set up a meeting with ninth-ranked Musetti in the quarterfinals.

Third-ranked Alexander Zverev plays Corentin Moutet of France in a night match later Sunday.

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NEW YORK — Naomi Osaka eliminated Coco Gauff 6-3, 6-2 in 64 minutes at the US Open on Monday to…