{"id":177258,"date":"2025-10-03T11:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/177258\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:11:11","slug":"no-one-is-talking-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/177258\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;No one is talking to you&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coco Gauff\u2019s title defence at the 2025 China Open remains on track after she overcame Belinda Bencic to reach the quarter-finals, and the pair were involved in a tense exchange.<\/p>\n<p>The world No 3 prevailed 4-6, 7-6(4), 6-2 against 16th-ranked Bencic after two hours and 31 minutes in the fourth round of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/wta-tour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTA<\/a> 1000 tournament.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/coco-gauff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gauff<\/a> led 4-1 in the opening set before Bencic won five straight games to turn it around, and the 28-year-old Swiss looked to be closing in on victory when she broke to take a 4-3 lead in the second set.<\/p>\n<p>The American broke Bencic back in the next game, though, and won the second set on a tiebreak as she reeled off the last four points. In the deciding set, Gauff broke Bencic twice as she sealed a comeback win.<\/p>\n<p>During Bencic\u2019s service game at 2-3 in the second set, she expressed her frustration with a fan cheering as she prepared to serve after Gauff had won a point.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff said, \u201cThere\u2019s nobody in the stadium. It\u2019s been so respectful\u201d, to which Bencic replied, \u201cThey can cheer after the point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After she took a 4-3 lead, Bencic continued her complaints to the umpire during the changeover: \u201cWhen the point is over, it\u2019s no problem, I don\u2019t care. But when I\u2019m going to the line ready to serve, they don\u2019t need to cheer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gauff then said something to Bencic which could not be heard on the broadcast, which sparked a reaction from a visibly annoyed Bencic.<\/p>\n<p>the video clip of this Belinda-Coco exchange: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AfNLqHdGFD\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/AfNLqHdGFD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y2FHzZxvnW\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/y2FHzZxvnW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christian\u2019s Court (@christianscourt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/christianscourt\/status\/1972887417305882651?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one\u2019s talking to you! She\u2019s talking to me, okay! I haven\u2019t started [it]. Your team is chatting\u2026 I\u2019m too old for these mind games okay!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In her press conference, Gauff was asked about her exchange with Bencic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I mean, I knew she said something to my team, but I didn\u2019t know exactly what,\u201d the two-time Grand Slam winner said.<\/p>\n<p>WTA Tour News<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/coco-gauff-serve-stats-analysis-china-open-beijing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How has Coco Gauff\u2019s serve performed at the China Open \u2013 and is it a concern?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/wta-rankings-close-iga-swiatek-get-world-no-1-aryna-sabalenka-china-open\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTA Rankings: How close can Iga Swiatek get to world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka at China Open?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey told me she said, \u2018Shut up\u2019. I didn\u2019t hear it, so I can only go based off of what they said. I mean, I guess she was upset about them cheering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, the stadium is silent, so you hear both teams. I played previous rounds, both my matches I could hear the other teams pretty loud and clear, because it is silent. It doesn\u2019t bother me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was telling her to be respectful. I\u2019ve been nice with her team off court. We\u2019ve been nice with each other. I just didn\u2019t like that comment towards my team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, that was it. I mean, we moved on after that. I haven\u2019t spoken to her since. She\u2019s entitled to how she felt and I\u2019m entitled to how I respond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old added: \u201cYeah, I mean, immediately after that, next game I was frustrated, threw three doubles. But after that I was just like, \u2018Okay, I don\u2019t want to lose anymore after this point\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was able to just buckle down. I think it was almost good for me in a way. I think I can play sometimes a little bit better when I\u2019m annoyed, more so not with myself but with something else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know, I think it did help me. But I\u2019m not a confrontational person. I don\u2019t like having confrontation on the court. I definitely don\u2019t like that. I mean, it happens. It\u2019s sport. Yeah, I\u2019m happy that today went my way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gauff will face world No 66 Eva Lys in the last eight in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/iga-swiatek-criticises-wta-tour-rule-mandatory-events-china-open-beijing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iga Swiatek asserts it is \u2018smart to not care\u2019 about controversial WTA Tour rules<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff\u2019s title defence at the 2025 China Open remains on track after she overcame Belinda Bencic to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-177258","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\/177258","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=177258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}