{"id":217033,"date":"2025-10-11T15:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T15:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/217033\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T15:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T15:39:08","slug":"coco-gauff-overcomes-double-faults-will-face-pegula-in-wuhan-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/217033\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff overcomes double faults; will face Pegula in Wuhan final"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Coco Gauff<\/a> had more struggles with her serve but overcame seven double faults to beat Jasmine Paolini<\/a> 6-4, 6-3 on Saturday and reach the Wuhan Open final.<\/p>\n

Gauff will face Jessica Pegula<\/a> in Sunday’s title match after her fellow American came from behind to oust top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (2).<\/p>\n

The third-ranked Gauff edged Paolini by winning the battle of converted breaks 7-5 as both top-10 players struggled with their service games.<\/p>\n

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

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

Gauff, 21, 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

Pegula’s win set up only the third all-American WTA 1000 final since its inception in 2009, having also contested the last one in 2024 in Toronto when she defeated Amanda Anisimova<\/a> in three sets.<\/p>\n

Pegula trailed 5-2 in the third set before winning four games in a row. She wasn’t able to serve out the match at 6-5 but held on to take the tiebreaker over Sabalenka.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka was the three-time defending champion and boasted a 20-match winning streak at the tournament.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press and PA contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 11, 2025, 09:34 AM ET Coco Gauff had more struggles with her serve but overcame seven double…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-217033","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\/217033","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=217033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}