Conceding a two-game lead appeared to be sufficient motivation for Gauff to go more aggressive, breaking her Chinese opponent for the first time to go 4-2 up. She was in command by this point with 11 winners and two aces to take a sub-half-hour set.<\/p>\n
While the World No. 3 looked to be in control, the pressure of her service had its impact \u2013 across the match, she committed six double faults.<\/p>\n
That did not mean that there was a shortage of serving struggles on the other side of the net, where a fifth Zhang double fault of the day handed a break to Gauff to serve for the match.<\/p>\n
Gauff made up for her serving deficits with a clinical return game \u2013 the third seed won 87 per cent of her second return points and broke her opponent five times, sealing the win at the first match point available.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old will aim for a second title of the year and a third at WTA 1000 level, before heading to Riyadh for the year-end WTA Finals in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conceding a two-game lead appeared to be sufficient motivation for Gauff to go more aggressive, breaking her Chinese…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-200534","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\/200534","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=200534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}