{"id":179445,"date":"2025-09-30T06:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/179445\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T06:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:09:09","slug":"key-service-break-to-open-third-set-leads-coco-gauff-to-victory-over-belinda-bencic-at-china-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/179445\/","title":{"rendered":"Key service break to open third set leads Coco Gauff to victory over Belinda Bencic at China Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BEIJING (AP) \u2014 Coco Gauff broke Belinda Bencic\u2019s serve to open the deciding set and went on to beat the Swiss player 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2 on Tuesday to advance to the China Open quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The second-seeded Gauff improved her head-to-head career meetings with the 28-year-old Bencic to 4-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Three of those matches have come this year, including Gauff\u2019s win at the Australian Open in January. But Bencic won at Abu Dhabi, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics gold medalist made the Indian Wells quarterfinals and advanced to the Wimbledon semis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Two men\u2019s semifinals were scheduled later at Beijing in the ATP tournament running concurrently with the WTA 1000 event. Jannik Sinner was scheduled to play Alex de Minaur and Learner Tien took on Daniil Medvedev.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The men\u2019s final was scheduled for Wednesday with the ATP Tour then moving on to the Shanghai Masters for a 12-day run through to the final on Oct. 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING (AP) \u2014 Coco Gauff broke Belinda Bencic\u2019s serve to open the deciding set and went on to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-179445","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\/179445","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=179445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}