{"id":922390,"date":"2026-10-06T05:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T05:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/922390\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T05:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T05:30:19","slug":"coco-gauff-reports-online-racial-abuse-after-incident-during-her-victory-over-sun-xinran-at-china-open-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/922390\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff reports online racial abuse after incident during her victory over Sun Xinran at China Open | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coco Gauff has said she has been racially abused on social media following an incident in her win over Sun Xinran at the China Open.<\/p>\n<p>The world No 4 won 7-5 6-1 against the 16-year-old from China to progress to the last 16 in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff was serving to stay in the first set at 4-5 when Sun thought she had hit a winner, but the American had already raised her hand to stop the point as a light in the side panels around the court was flickering.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff took the next three points to hold for 5-5, and then dropped just one more game in the match.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old tried to explain the situation on X, saying: &#8220;It was an unfortunate situation but it is out of my control.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Xinran is incredible talent and player, I apologised for the situation at the end of the match and she completely understood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gauff then responded to a racist reply to her post by saying: &#8220;Hey everyone, you can dislike me or disagree about what happened without being racist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The amount of racist comments\/dms I&#8217;ve received in the last few hours is insane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lastly, I &#8216;m not a cheater or a thief.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff has said she has been racially abused on social media following an incident in her win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-922390","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\/922390","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=922390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}