{"id":186075,"date":"2025-10-02T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/186075\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:00:00","slug":"coco-gauff-defeats-eva-lys-to-reach-china-open-semifinal-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/186075\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff defeats Eva Lys to reach China Open semifinal | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second-seeded American reached her first semifinal since the French Open in June.<\/p>\n

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Coco Gauff put down a spirited challenge from 66th-ranked Eva Lys to earn a 6-3 6-4 victory in Beijing on Thursday and reach the China Open semifinals for a second successive year.<\/p>\n

Gauff, who is bidding to become the first woman to win back-to-back titles at the WTA 1000 event, had battled through three-setters in the previous two rounds and had to overcome stiff resistance from the German.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m happy with how I played today. She\u2019s a tough opponent, she hit a couple of great shots on the run,\u201d Gauff said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I need to stay confident in my game and not be too passive when I have the lead. I played one passive point in this match, but otherwise I played well.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a fast and furious start to the first set as both players fired off a string of winners and traded early breaks as the momentum swung wildly.<\/p>\n

Following a run of five straight breaks of serve it was defending champion Gauff who finally seized control, taking a 5-3 lead when Lys sent a backhand wide and then consolidating to clinch the first set.<\/p>\n

The world number three appeared to have found her range on serve in the second set and eased through a couple of holds, but a brief wobble and a few double-faults from the American added some late drama.<\/p>\n

Serving for the match at 5-4, however, Gauff held her nerve to close out the win in an hour and 28 minutes.<\/p>\n

The two-time Grand Slam champion next faces either compatriot Amanda Anisimova or Italian Jasmine Paolini, who meet in the second quarterfinal on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\"CocoGauff is bidding to become the first woman to win back-to-back titles at the WTA 1000 event in Beijing [Greg Baker\/AFP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second-seeded American reached her first semifinal since the French Open in June. Published On 2 Oct 20252…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[6109,49,48,95,44,457,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-186075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sport","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186075","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=186075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}