Clara Tauson on Sunday night crashed out of the third round of the WTA 1000 tournament in Indian Wells when she lost in three sets 6-7, 6-4, 4-6 to the young Australian Talia Gibson.<\/p>\n
Despite a record number of aces, Clara Tauson<\/a> crashed out of the WTA 1000 tournament in Indian Wells after a surprise defeat to Australian qualifier Talia Gibson<\/a> in the third round.<\/p>\n Gibason, who is ranked 112 in the world, won 7-6, 4-6, 6-4, won after a little more than two hours and 40 minutes of play in the California midday heat in the Coachella Valley.<\/p>\n The Dane, who is ranked 17th in the world, had been warned about Gibson’s strength after the 21-year-old Australian sprung a big surprise with a straight-sets victory over Ekaterina Alexandrova<\/a> in the second round.<\/p>\n Tauson also did a lot right to win the game. 28 service aces and nine break points are usually statistics that speak in favor of a victory, but the resistant Gibson was at her best in the decisive moments in a generally very even match.<\/p>\n 28 aces is a new record for Tauson. Last summer, she made 26 aces in a win over Sofia Kenin in New Zealand. The WTA Tour record stands at 31 aces and was set by Czech Kristyna Pliskova<\/a> in 2016.<\/p>\n After one of the biggest triumphs in her career, Gibson will now face either compatriot Ajla Tomljanovic<\/a> or Italian Jasmine Paolini<\/a> in the round of 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clara Tauson on Sunday night crashed out of the third round of the WTA 1000 tournament in Indian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-465485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465485","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=465485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}