PERTH, Australia (AP) \u2014 After a singles loss and social media drama earlier in the week, Coco Gauff did all her talking on court Wednesday in the United Cup quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
Gauff beat Maria Sakkari 6-3, 6-2 to give the defending champion<\/a> United States a 1-0 lead over Greece. Taylor Fritz had a chance in a singles match to follow against Stefanos Tsitsipas to advance the Americans to the semifinals in Sydney on Saturday.<\/p>\n On Monday, Gauff dropped a post<\/a> on social media just before she started her singles match, hoping to add context to her recent comments about American tennis fans<\/a>.<\/p>\n The ensuing match didn\u2019t go well for the No. 4-ranked Gauff, who lost the first five games and struggled in a 6-1, 6-7 (3), 6-0 loss to No. 42 Jessica Bouzas Maneiro. But Fritz won his singles match and Gauff and Christian Harrison combined in mixed doubles to clinch top spot in Group A and advance the Americans to the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n \u201cI think I was striking the ball well today, and when that happens, my movement on the court is also good,\u201d Gauff said Wednesday. \u201cI usually know it\u2019s going to be a good day.\u201d<\/p>\n In a night quarterfinal at Perth, Stan Wawrinka, playing in his farewell tour<\/a> this year before retiring<\/a>, was scheduled to lead Switzerland against Argentina.<\/p>\n At Sydney, Hubert Hurkacz and Iga \u015awi\u0105tek were victorious in their singles matches to give Poland a winning 2-0 lead over Netherlands and a place in the quarterfinals from Group F.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PERTH, Australia (AP) \u2014 After a singles loss and social media drama earlier in the week, Coco Gauff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-225059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}