{"id":179534,"date":"2025-09-30T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T07:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/179534\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T07:50:09","slug":"coco-gauff-rallies-to-win-against-belinda-bencic-at-china-open-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/179534\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff rallies to win against Belinda Bencic at China Open | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The two-time grand slam singles champion defeated Bencic in three sets to advance to the quarterfinals in Beijing.<\/p>\n

Published On 30 Sep 202530 Sep 2025<\/p>\n

Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n

share2<\/p>\n

Share<\/p>\n

Defending champion Coco Gauff fought back to beat Belinda Bencic 4-6, 7-6 (7\/4), 6-2 in a tense encounter and reach the China Open quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

Gauff next plays either Eva Lys of Germany or fellow American McCartney Kessler in Beijing.<\/p>\n

Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a tough match,\u201d Gauff said after her fourth-round match against Bencic on Tuesday. \u201cI had chances in the first to close it out but overall I\u2019m happy with how I fought. She was being really aggressive.\u201d<\/p>\n

There were frustrations on both sides of the court at a largely empty stadium as the players switched between one half darkened by shade and the other in the blazing sun.<\/p>\n

There was a flashpoint between the two players during a changeover in the second set when Switzerland\u2019s 15th seed Bencic said: \u201cYour team is chatting. I\u2019m too old for these mind games, okay?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re the one playing the mind games,\u201d Gauff, the second seed, shot back.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old Gauff kept it together to win the tiebreak when Tokyo Olympic champion Bencic double-faulted on set point and threw her racquet in anger.<\/p>\n

The world number three Gauff broke early in the third set and carried that momentum through to win when a flagging Bencic returned into the net.<\/p>\n

With her last-16 victory, Gauff qualified for the WTA Finals in Saudi Arabia in November.<\/p>\n

\u201cHappy to qualify once again. Happy to be back in Riyadh and I\u2019m glad I was able to do it here,\u201d Gauff told the on-court interviewer.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a tough tournament so far, but I\u2019m happy to get through.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"CocoGauff hits a return to Bencic during their women\u2019s singles match at the China Open [Wang Zhao\/AFP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two-time grand slam singles champion defeated Bencic in three sets to advance to the quarterfinals in Beijing.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[77,64,63,512,44,588,85,747],"class_list":["post-179534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-asia-pacific","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-china","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}