{"id":208354,"date":"2026-03-27T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/208354\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:00:08","slug":"gauff-powers-into-1st-final-at-miami-open-with-straight-sets-victory-over-muchova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/208354\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauff powers into 1st final at Miami Open with straight-sets victory over Muchova"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published:\u00a0March 27, 2026 at 9:33 AM<\/p>\n

lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand\"\"Coco Gauff. (WPLG) <\/p>\n

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. \u2014 What a homecoming for Coco Gauff.<\/p>\n

The South Florida native advanced to her first Miami Open<\/a> final on Thursday with a commanding straight-sets victory over Karolina Muchova, of Czechia, in the semifinals. <\/p>\n

Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n

Gauff controlled the match from the start, racing through the opening set 6-1 before closing out the second set by the same score to secure the win.<\/p>\n

Despite arriving at the tournament not at her best physically, Gauff has found her form in front of a home crowd, delivering one of her most dominant performances of the event on the way to Saturday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n

Gauff will now look to capture her first Miami Open title as she continues her run in front of a supportive local crowd at Hard Rock Stadium. <\/p>\n

Waiting for her in the championship match is No. 1 ranked Aryna Sabalenka, of Belarus, who advanced with a straight-sets win over Russian Elena Rybakina, setting up the final showdown.<\/p>\n

On the men\u2019s side, top players also moved through the semifinals, with Jannik Sinner defeating American Frances Tiafoe 6-2 6-2. The Italian will now face Germany\u2019s Alexander Zverev in the men\u2019s final of the Miami Open. <\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

\"RyanRyan Mackey <\/p>\n

Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 27, 2026 at 9:33 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandCoco Gauff. (WPLG) MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. \u2014 What a homecoming for Coco…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-208354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}