French Open winner Coco Gauff was forced to go the distance against Canada’s 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 in Beijing.<\/p>\n
The defending champion and a firm crowd favourite in Beijing overcame a second set stumble and then struggled to serve out the match in the third, before breaking the Laval, Que., native\u00a0in the 12th game of the deciding set to clinch it.<\/p>\n
The American star, ranked third in the world,\u00a0will next face No. 16 Belinda Bencic\u00a0of Switzerland\u00a0in the WTA 1000-series tournament.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The tournament is being held concurrently with an ATP 500 men’s tournament.<\/p>\n
Second-seeded Alexander Zverev rallied from a break down in the deciding set to defeat 37th-ranked Corentin Moutet 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 to set up a quarterfinal matchup against Daniil Medvedev, who got past Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-3, 6-3.<\/p>\n
A day after becoming the latest tennis star to make an apology to Chinese fans, Lorenzo Musetti had a straight-sets victory over tour veteran Adrian Mannarino 6-3, 6-3 in a second-round match.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Learner Tien beat Flavio Cobolli 6-3, 6-2 to set up a meeting with the No. 9-ranked Musetti in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French Open winner Coco Gauff was forced to go the distance against Canada’s Leylah Fernandez before closing out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-176602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}