{"id":175114,"date":"2025-10-02T12:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/175114\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T12:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:33:08","slug":"coco-gauff-through-to-china-open-semi-finals-after-overcoming-eva-lys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/175114\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff through to China Open semi-finals after overcoming Eva Lys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defending champion Coco Gauff beat Eva Lys in straight sets to reach her third consecutive China Open semi-final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The world number three took one hour and 28 minutes to overcome her German opponent 6-3 6-4. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The American, a two-time Grand Slam winner, broke Lys three times in the opening set, converting three of her four break point opportunities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m happy with how I played &#8211; she&#8217;s a tough opponent and she hit some incredible shots on the run but I tried my best to play aggressive and good tennis,&#8221; said Gauff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think staying confident in my game [was important]. Not being too passive when I had the lead, I played one passive point in the last game but after that I played good tennis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gauff, who has struggled with her serve at times this season, had an impressive 79% first serve percentage throughout the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old, who was knocked out of the opening round of Wimbledon after winning the French Open earlier this year, is now the highest-ranked player left in the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She will face either Amanda Anisimova or Jasmine Paolini in the final four. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defending champion Coco Gauff beat Eva Lys in straight sets to reach her third consecutive China Open semi-final.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-175114","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\/175114","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=175114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}