{"id":271787,"date":"2025-11-04T22:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/271787\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T22:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:38:10","slug":"defending-champ-coco-gauff-revives-shot-at-making-wta-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/271787\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending champ Coco Gauff revives shot at making WTA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &#8212; Defending champion <a data-player-guid=\"ca44c2b0-9dea-ab40-2541-b50a4442ff8e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3626\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coco Gauff<\/a> revived her chances of advancing at the WTA Finals with a 6-3, 6-2 win over <a data-player-guid=\"1cb6cc14-00ad-6c8b-301e-aa8adc243503\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2615\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jasmine Paolini<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff also improved her serving, hitting only three double-faults &#8211; far fewer than the 17 that she produced in her opening match, a three-set loss to <a data-player-guid=\"63f9c1e5-14bd-003f-c269-31543931ad1d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2113\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Pegula<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Definitely a turnaround from my first match,&#8221; Gauff said. &#8220;It&#8217;s the beauty of this tournament and to have another chance to prove yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gauff next faces top-ranked <a data-player-guid=\"c91d133a-526a-ea8d-654c-7ef6915ad63b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3038\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> to determine if she advances in the season-ending event for the top eight players, while Paolini was eliminated from contention with two losses.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka leads the group after beating Pegula 6-4, 2-6, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Paolini is also playing doubles at the event with partner <a data-player-guid=\"82dfe891-e743-372d-3bde-0bab506abfa1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=636\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sara Errani<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think Jasmine was 100% today,&#8221; Gauff said. &#8220;Playing singles and doubles is not easy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &#8212; Defending champion Coco Gauff revived her chances of advancing at the WTA Finals with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-271787","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\/271787","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=271787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}