{"id":428835,"date":"2026-01-25T10:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/428835\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T10:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:57:08","slug":"coco-gauff-wins-in-three-sets-to-reach-australian-open-quarterfinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/428835\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff wins in three sets to reach Australian Open quarterfinal"},"content":{"rendered":"

MELBOURNE, Australia \u2014 Third seed Coco Gauff weathered a three-set thriller to beat Karolina Muchova 6-1 3-6 6-3 on Sunday to advance to the \u2060Australian Open quarterfinals, extending her perfect record against the Czech player to five straight wins.<\/p>\n

The result bodes well for the American, who has won every tournament in which she has beaten Muchova, including the 2023 U.S. Open.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think today \u2060I didn\u2019t panic. I felt like the second set could have easily went my way,\u201d Gauff \u2060said. \u201cSo I knew I just had to capitalize on those chances in the third set and I did that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"CocoCoco Gauff celebrates after her three-set win over Karolina Muchova in the fourth round of the Australian Open on Jan. 25, 2026. Reuters<\/p>\n

What started as a demolition job quickly turned into a compelling see-saw battle at Melbourne Park, with Gauff storming to a \u200bblistering 5-0 lead in just 20 minutes.<\/p>\n

Muchova, who arrived with two top-10 wins under her belt in Brisbane, did not get on the board until the sixth game and by then the opening set had already slipped away as Gauff closed it with clinical efficiency.<\/p>\n

The tide turned in the second set, however, with Muchova breaking twice to establish a 4-1 lead as Gauff struggled with her serve and made double faults.<\/p>\n

When the chance to \u200bserve for the set arrived Muchova \u2060did not waste it, serving to love to claim a \u200cset over Gauff for the first time in \u200bfive meetings.<\/p>\n

\"CocoCoco Gauff hits a forehand during her three-set win over Karolina Muchova in the fourth round of the Australian Open. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Gauff, who constantly looked to \u200cthe players\u2019 box in the second set, came out swinging in the decider, forcing more errors from Muchova to go up 4-1.<\/p>\n

A thrilling seventh game had both players scrambling in long rallies as \u200cthe momentum shifted back and forth until Gauff fired a backhand winner and screamed in triumph.<\/p>\n

Muchova saved three match \u2060points before Gauff sealed progress to the last eight.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe plays with so much variety,\u201d Gauff said. \u201cYou never know what \u200cyou\u2019re going to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn that last game I was trusting my second serve, which I feel like is \u200ca stepping stone in \u200dthe right direction to be able to hit as many second serves in the court that \u2060I did, especially in the two games that were long holds.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MELBOURNE, Australia \u2014 Third seed Coco Gauff weathered a three-set thriller to beat Karolina Muchova 6-1 3-6 6-3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[12083,5113,99,428],"class_list":["post-428835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-australian-open","tag-coco-gauff","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428835","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=428835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}