{"id":208952,"date":"2025-10-08T11:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T11:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/208952\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T11:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T11:25:06","slug":"jessica-pegula-coco-gauff-advance-naomi-osaka-out-in-wuhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/208952\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Pegula, Coco Gauff advance, Naomi Osaka out in Wuhan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jessica Pegula<\/a> was twice broken while serving for the match in the third set but recovered to edge Hailey Baptiste<\/a> in a tight tiebreaker Wednesday and advance at the Wuhan Open.<\/p>\n

Sixth-seeded Pegula beat her fellow American 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (6) on her seventh match point to reach the third round.<\/p>\n

Pegula, who lost in the China Open semifinals last week, will next play ninth-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova<\/a>, who beat American Ann Li<\/a> 7-6 (5), 6-2.<\/p>\n

No. 3 Coco Gauff<\/a>, coming off a semifinal loss to eventual champion Amanda Anisimova<\/a> at the China Open, breezed into the next round with a 6-1, 6-0 win over Moyuka Uchijima<\/a> in 51 minutes.<\/p>\n

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No. 11 Naomi Osaka<\/a> was upset by unseeded Linda Noskova<\/a> 7-6 (2), 6-3. The 20-year-old Czech player was defeated by Anisimova in the final of the China Open on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Noskova, ranked 17th, will next face either Jaqueline Cristian<\/a> or Elena Rybakina<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No. 16 Liudmila Samsonova<\/a> rallied to beat 2020 Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin<\/a> 3-6, 6-3, 6-1, and qualifier Kate\u0159ina Siniakov\u00e1<\/a> beat Maya Joint<\/a> 6-3, 6-1.<\/p>\n

In the third round, Samsonova will face US Open champion Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>, who defeated Rebecca Sramkova<\/a> 4-6, 6-3, 6-1.<\/p>\n

The top-ranked Sabalenka has had an amazing run in Wuhan. Her record is 18-0 while winning titles in 2018, 2019 and 2024. She took a Greek holiday after her second consecutive win at Flushing Meadows and withdrew from last week’s China Open, another WTA 1000-level event.<\/p>\n

“I knew after that little break … it will be not that easy to get back in my rhythm. I’m really glad that in the second set I found my game and stepped in, and I think I played really great,” Sabalenka said. “I’m super happy to be back. I’ve won a lot of tournaments in China. It feels like home in this stadium, and I really hope I can go all the way.”<\/p>\n

Sabalenka broke her 68th-ranked opponent in the opening game of the final set and converted her second match point to win in almost two hours.<\/p>\n

After Sramkova broke Sabalenka twice to take the opening set, Sabalenka started her rally with a break in the fourth game of the second set and jumped to a 4-1 lead. She saved four break points in the seventh game.<\/p>\n

Karolina Muchova<\/a> became the latest player to succumb to the heat and humidity, withdrawing from her match while trailing Magdalena Frech<\/a> 7-6 (1), 4-1.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press and PA contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessica Pegula was twice broken while serving for the match in the third set but recovered to edge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-208952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}