{"id":388761,"date":"2026-01-05T07:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/388761\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:52:07","slug":"bouzas-maneiro-stuns-gauff-to-give-spain-1-0-lead-over-usa-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/388761\/","title":{"rendered":"Bouzas Maneiro stuns Gauff to give Spain 1-0 lead over USA | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        United Cup<br \/>\n    Bouzas Maneiro stuns Gauff to give Spain 1-0 lead over USA<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Fritz must now beat Jaume Munar to keep Americans alive in the Day 4 tie<\/p>\n<p>January 06, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bouzas-maneiro-united-cup-2025-monday.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Bouzas Maneiro in action on Monday at the United Cup in Perth.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tennis Australia<\/p>\n<p>        Jessica Bouzas Maneiro in action on Monday at the United Cup in Perth.<br \/>\n        By ATP\/WTA Staff<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Bouzas Maneiro is coming off a breakout 2025 season in which she set a career-high ranking of No. 40, reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time at Wimbledon and made her first WTA 1000 quarterfinal in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday at the United Cup, the Spaniard carried that momentum into 2026, upsetting World No. 4 Coco Gauff in dominant fashion, 6-1, 6-7 (3), 6-0 at RAC Arena. The loss is Gauff\u2019s first at the United Cup in 10 matches across singles and doubles; she entered the day 6-0 in singles and 9-0 overall. <\/p>\n<p>The win marks Bouzas Maneiro\u2019s first career Top-5 victory and gives Spain a 1-0 lead over the United States ahead of the men\u2019s singles match between Taylor Fritz and Jaume Munar. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cI know Coco and she\u2019s a fighter,\u201d Bouzas Maneiro said after the match. \u201cShe\u2019s there all the time in the match, so I knew that I had to be there, and even if I\u2019m 4-1 up, I have to be there. And yeah, she won the second set and I went to the bathroom and I was trying to focus just to take it point by point. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cAnd that was my mentality in the third set. To be [there] with power every point because even if you are [up] 3-0 or 4-0, you have to be ready.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/apps?utm_source=atp&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=app_banner\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/-\/media\/&#10;9333ed00493246e6a2ad692fa18710b7.ashx\" alt=\"The Official App Of Tennis | Download ATP WTA Live App\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bouzas Maneiro set the tone immediately, breaking Gauff in the opening game en route to a 5-0 lead. She went on to break the American in all four of her service games in the first set and nine times overall. <\/p>\n<p>Her forehand &#8212; which produced 11 winners in the match &#8212; fueled her early surge, but her return game, paired with Gauff\u2019s serving struggles, defined the rest of the match. It was a stark contrast to Gauff\u2019s dominant performance earlier in the week against Argentina\u2019s Solana Sierra. <\/p>\n<p>Gauff landed just 60% of her first serves and won just under 60% of those points. She was further undone by 14 double faults and 54 unforced errors. Bouzas Maneiro could only match Gauff\u2019s first-serve numbers but managed her unforced errors more effectively (41) and converted 9 of 12 break points. <\/p>\n<p>Still, Gauff refused to go quietly despite her struggles. She rallied from 4-1 down to take the second set in a tiebreak and appeared poised for a remarkable comeback. But Bouzas Maneiro broke to open the decider and never looked back, racing to a 4-0 lead after saving two break points in a five-deuce game. <\/p>\n<p>After 2 hours and 12 minutes, Bouzas Maneiro closed out the match with a third-set bagel, earning a bit of redemption after being blanked in a deciding set by Sierra earlier in the week, and secured the biggest win of her career. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United Cup Bouzas Maneiro stuns Gauff to give Spain 1-0 lead over USA Taylor Fritz must now beat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-388761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388761","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=388761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}