{"id":166305,"date":"2025-09-28T16:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T16:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/166305\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T16:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T16:19:07","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-into-japan-open-semi-finals-as-coco-gauff-wins-in-china-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/166305\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz into Japan Open semi-finals as Coco Gauff wins in China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Defending champion Gauff came through an error-strewn third-round match at the China Open, saying “I did what I needed to do to win” against Fernandez.<\/p>\n

She eventually won a tight encounter in three sets – 6-4 4-6 7-5 – but the problems with her serve that brought the American second seed to tears at the US Open<\/a> resurfaced in Beijing. <\/p>\n

The 21-year-old two-time Grand Slam champion served nine double faults and was broken seven times in the match.<\/p>\n

Both players struggled with their serve, with 15 breaks in total throughout, including eight in the final set – three on Gauff’s serve and five on Fernandez’s. <\/p>\n

Gauff served twice for the match from 5-2 up, only to be broken on both occasions by the Canadian world number 25, but she gathered herself at 5-5 to break straight back and finally served out the match, sealing victory on her second match point.<\/p>\n

“It was very physical, we were going back and forth,” Gauff said in her on-court interview.<\/p>\n

“Obviously the third set I was playing pretty well. I know I could have served a little bit better, but I did what I needed to do to win today.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, top seed Jannik Sinner will play unseeded Hungarian Fabian Marozsan in the quarter-finals of the men’s event in Beijing on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defending champion Gauff came through an error-strewn third-round match at the China Open, saying “I did what I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-166305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}