Coco Gauff made it safely through to the quarter-finals in Melbourne for a third successive year with a resilient win over Czech 19th seed Karolina Muchova.<\/p>\n
The world number three raced through the first set, but Muchova pulled back in the second before Gauff held her nerve to serve out the 6-1 3-6 6-3 victory on her fourth match point.<\/p>\n
Gauff, a two-time major champion, has gone on to win all four tournaments in which she has faced Muchova – including the 2023 US Open.<\/p>\n
However, she has never reached the final at Melbourne.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old will face Russian eighth seed Mirra Andreeva or Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina, seeded 12th, in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
Speaking after her win, Gauff credited her run to the last eight to “trusting myself”.<\/p>\n
“My history has been tough with the serve but I think today was great, there was one loose serve in the second set but after that it was pretty good,” she said.<\/p>\n
“That’s the biggest thing, just trusting myself and knowing that I’ve put in the work in practice and knowing it will show up in the matches.<\/p>\n
Gauff then wrote “confidence is the key” on a camera lens after the victory, which improved her head-to-head record with Muchova to 5-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff made it safely through to the quarter-finals in Melbourne for a third successive year with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-432104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432104","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=432104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}