{"id":396840,"date":"2026-01-07T05:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/396840\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T05:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:41:07","slug":"coco-gauff-win-puts-u-s-up-on-greece-in-united-cup-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/396840\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff win puts U.S. up on Greece in United Cup quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"

PERTH, Australia — After a singles loss and social media drama<\/a> earlier in the week, Coco Gauff<\/a> did all her talking on court Wednesday in the United Cup quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

Gauff beat Maria Sakkari<\/a> 6-3, 6-2 to give the defending champion United States a 1-0 lead over Greece. Taylor Fritz<\/a> had a chance in a singles match to follow against Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/a> to advance the Americans to the semifinals in Sydney on Saturday.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Gauff posted to social media<\/a> just before she started her singles match, hoping to add context to her recent comments about American tennis fans.<\/p>\n

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The ensuing match didn’t go well for the No. 4-ranked Gauff, who lost the first five games and struggled in a 6-1, 6-7 (3), 6-0 loss to No. 42 Jessica Bouzas Maneiro<\/a>. But Fritz won his singles match and Gauff and Christian Harrison<\/a> combined in mixed doubles to clinch top spot in Group A and advance the Americans to the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

“I think I was striking the ball well today, and when that happens, my movement on the court is also good,” Gauff said Wednesday. “I usually know it’s going to be a good day.”<\/p>\n

In a night quarterfinal at Perth, Stan Wawrinka<\/a>, playing in his farewell tour<\/a> this year before retiring<\/a>, was scheduled to lead Switzerland against Argentina.<\/p>\n

At Sydney, Hubert Hurkacz<\/a> and Iga Swiatek<\/a> were victorious in their singles matches to give Poland a winning 2-0 lead over Netherlands and a place in the quarterfinals from Group F.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PERTH, Australia — After a singles loss and social media drama earlier in the week, Coco Gauff did…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-396840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396840","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=396840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}