{"id":171023,"date":"2025-09-30T18:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T18:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/171023\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T18:58:08","slug":"china-open-coco-gauff-and-belinda-bencic-clash-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/171023\/","title":{"rendered":"China Open: Coco Gauff and Belinda Bencic clash in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gauff said: “I knew she said something to my team, but I didn’t know exactly what. They told me she said, ‘Shut up’. I didn’t hear it, so I can only go based off what they said.<\/p>\n

“I was telling her to be respectful. I’ve been nice with her team off court. We’ve been nice with each other. I just didn’t like that comment towards my team. We moved on after that.<\/p>\n

“I haven’t spoken to her since. She’s entitled to how she felt and I’m entitled to how I respond.<\/p>\n

“I obviously have a lot of respect for Belinda. She’s a great player, coming back and playing great tennis as a mom. I obviously wish today didn’t happen, but it is what it is.”<\/p>\n

Gauff also backed up Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek after she said on Monday that the tennis season is too long.<\/a><\/p>\n

“I think I’ve basically played as much tennis as I possibly can,” Gauff said.<\/p>\n

“It’s just impossible. Especially now with more and more events being two weeks long, it just doesn’t really make sense to strain your body.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gauff said: “I knew she said something to my team, but I didn’t know exactly what. They told…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-171023","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\/171023","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=171023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}