The French Open has produced another upset. <\/p>\n
American star Coco Gauff, the No. 4 seed and the defending champion, lost to Anastasia Potapova, the No. 28 seed, in the third round at Roland-Garros on Saturday. It’s Gauff’s earliest exit at the French Open since 2020. <\/p>\n
There are now no more previous French Open winners on the men’s or women’s side. <\/p>\n
Gauff faced an early deficit in the first set as Potapova took a 4-2 lead, though she quickly shifted the momentum to rally and take the opening frame. <\/p>\n
Potapova then jumped out to a 5-1 lead in the second set, but Gauff managed to rally and eventually even things up at 5-5. The second set went to a tiebreaker, where Potapova dominated, winning seven of eight points as Gauff struggled with a host of miscues. <\/p>\n
Gauff had the early edge in the third set, taking a 3-1 lead, but Potapova got right back into it with a break and a hold tie it up at 3-3. Leading 5-4, Potapova delivered a forehand that Gauff couldn’t answer, and she put the finishing touches on a stunning upset. <\/p>\n
The 25-year-old Potapova will now face Anna Kalinskaya, who beat Camila Osorio in the third round. Potapova has matched her best finish at Roland-Garros, but she’s seeking her first quarterfinal at any Grand Slam event. <\/p>\n
Potapova appeared to be managing some arm pain, icing her elbow immediately after the win, but the severity of any potential injury is unclear. <\/p>\n
Gauff started the year with a quarterfinal loss in the Australian Open before an injury forced her to retire at Indian Wells, and an illness ended her run at the Madrid Open. The 22-year-old was hoping for more at Roland-Garros, but she’ll instead shift her attention towards Wimbledon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The French Open has produced another upset. American star Coco Gauff, the No. 4 seed and the defending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-704652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704652","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=704652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}