Jul 31, 2025, 07:32 PM ET<\/p>\n
MONTREAL — Coco Gauff<\/a> overcame 14 more double-faults to beat Veronika Kudermetova<\/a> of Russia 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 on Thursday in the National Bank Open.<\/p>\n Two days after surviving 23 double-faults and a third-set tiebreaker against fellow American Danielle Collins<\/a>, the top-seeded Gauff rallied from a set and break down against Kudermetova to reach the round of 16.<\/p>\n “It was a tough match,” Gauff said. “I thought I did well mentally, especially on the return. I was playing an opponent that served really well. Obviously, I would like to serve better on my end, but overall, just happy to get through.”<\/p>\n Gauff, No. 2 in the world behind Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>, entered the week having lost two straight matches since winning the French Open, falling in her opening matches in Berlin and Wimbledon.<\/p>\n “It does give positives that I am winning these matches having literally one part of my game on a crutch,” Gauff said. “If I can stand on both feet, then I can only imagine that it will be a lot more straight-forward and a lot easier for me.”<\/p>\n Gauff set up a match with 18-year-old Canadian Victoria Mboko<\/a>, a 1-6, 6-3, 6-0 winner over Marie Bouzkova<\/a> of Czechia in the night session.<\/p>\n Mboko is the last of the nine Canadians left.<\/p>\n “It was a very difficult match, I feel like, mentally and physically for me,” Mboko said. “I’m just really happy to have come out with the win.”<\/p>\n McCartney Kessler<\/a> of the United States upset fourth-seeded Mirra Andreeva<\/a> of Russia 7-6 (5), 6-4. In the next round, Kessler will face Marta Kostyuk<\/a> of Ukraine. Kostyuk beat 15th-seeded Daria Kasatkina<\/a> of Australia 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4).<\/p>\n Dayana Yastremska<\/a> of Ukraine knocked off eighth-seeded Emma Navarro<\/a> 7-5, 6-4 in a night match. She’ll face ninth-seeded Elena Rybakina<\/a> of Kazakhstan, a 6-0, 7-6 (5) winner over Jaqueline Cristian<\/a> of Romania in the last match of the day.<\/p>\n Tenth-seeded Elina Svitolina<\/a> beat Kamilla Rakhimova<\/a> of Russia 7-5, 6-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 31, 2025, 07:32 PM ET MONTREAL — Coco Gauff overcame 14 more double-faults to beat Veronika Kudermetova…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-52506","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\/52506","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=52506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}