{"id":194044,"date":"2025-10-12T02:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/194044\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T02:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:27:09","slug":"coco-gauff-overcomes-double-faults-will-face-pegula-in-wuhan-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/194044\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff overcomes double faults; will face Pegula in Wuhan final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oct 11, 2025, 09:34 AM ET<\/p>\n

WUHAN, China — Coco Gauff<\/a> overcame seven double faults to beat Jasmine Paolini<\/a> and will meet compatriot Jessica Pegula<\/a> in the Wuhan Open final after the 31-year-old American ended top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>‘s winning streak at the tournament.<\/p>\n

Gauff saw off Paolini 6-4, 6-3 on Saturday after winning the battle of converted breaks 7-5 as both top-10 players struggled with their serves.<\/p>\n

Pegula won a 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (2) nail-biter to set up the all-American final and end Sabalenka’s 20-match Wuhan winning streak. Pegula holds a 4-2 advantage over Gauff in head-to-head matchups, though this is the first time they will meet in a final.<\/p>\n

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The third-ranked Gauff fought back from three breaks in the second set, which included a run of five consecutive double faults, and won the final four games to advance to the final.<\/p>\n

“I did what I needed to do to get through,” Gauff said.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old Gauff, who changed her serving coach in August, leads the women’s circuit this season with 378 double faults, over 120 more than the next player.<\/p>\n

But she also excelled in another stat: Her 13 career wins over top-10 players at WTA 1000 events are the most by any player before turning 22 since 2009, the circuit said.<\/p>\n

The fifth-ranked Paolini had eliminated Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek<\/a> in the quarterfinals and had won her previous three matches against Gauff, all played this season.<\/p>\n

The sixth-ranked Pegula was down 5-2 in the final set before winning four straight games. Sabalenka then saved two match points in the next game to force the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka won the Wuhan Open in 2018 and 2019 and again in 2024 after the event returned to the circuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 11, 2025, 09:34 AM ET WUHAN, China — Coco Gauff overcame seven double faults to beat Jasmine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-194044","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\/194044","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=194044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}