{"id":185274,"date":"2025-10-02T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/185274\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T14:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:55:09","slug":"coco-gauff-beats-hard-hitting-eva-lys-to-reach-china-open-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/185274\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff beats hard-hitting Eva Lys to reach China Open semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING &#8212; Defending champion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3626\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coco Gauff<\/a> reached the semifinals of the China Open for the third straight year after beating hard-hitting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=5260\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eva Lys<\/a> 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The second-seeded American was troubled on her serve and conceded seven break-point chances, But Lys, a German player seeking her first career WTA title, could convert only three of them and dropped her own serve five times against the French Open champion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s a tough opponent. She hit some incredible shots on the run,&#8221; said Gauff, who is seeking her 11th career title. &#8220;I was trying my best to stay aggressive. Just staying confident in my game and not being too passive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/46448320\/american-emma-navarro-upsets-top-seeded-iga-\u015bwi\u0105tek-china\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/r1515249_2_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gauff&#8217;s semifinal opponent will either be third-seeded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3221\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Anisimova<\/a> &#8212; the Wimbledon and US Open runner-up &#8212; or No. 6 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2615\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jasmine Paolini<\/a>, who recently helped Italy successfully defend the Billie Jean King Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING &#8212; Defending champion Coco Gauff reached the semifinals of the China Open for the third straight year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-185274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185274","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=185274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}