{"id":180192,"date":"2025-09-30T14:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/180192\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T14:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:05:17","slug":"china-open-coco-gauff-and-belinda-bencic-clash-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/180192\/","title":{"rendered":"China Open: Coco Gauff and Belinda Bencic clash in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gauff said: “I knew she said something to my team, but I didn’t know exactly what. They told me she said, ‘Shut up’. I didn’t hear it, so I can only go based off what they said.<\/p>\n

“I was telling her to be respectful. I’ve been nice with her team off court. We’ve been nice with each other. I just didn’t like that comment towards my team. We moved on after that.<\/p>\n

“I haven’t spoken to her since. She’s entitled to how she felt and I’m entitled to how I respond.<\/p>\n

“I obviously have a lot of respect for Belinda. She’s a great player, coming back and playing great tennis as a mom. I obviously wish today didn’t happen, but it is what it is.”<\/p>\n

Gauff also backed up Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek after she said on Monday that the tennis season is too long.<\/a><\/p>\n

“I think I’ve basically played as much tennis as I possibly can,” Gauff said.<\/p>\n

“It’s just impossible. Especially now with more and more events being two weeks long, it just doesn’t really make sense to strain your body.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gauff said: “I knew she said something to my team, but I didn’t know exactly what. They told…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-180192","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\/180192","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=180192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}