No. 1 seed Coco Gauff of the United States returned to winning form Thursday with a three-set victory over a former Top 10 player at the Omnium Banque Nationale.<\/p>\n
Montreal:\u00a0Draws<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Scores<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Order of play<\/a><\/p>\n World No. 2 Coco Gauff came back from a set and a break down to defeat Veronika Kudermetova 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 and advance to the Round of 16 in Montreal for the fifth straight year.<\/p>\n “It was a tough match today,” Gauff said afterward. “I thought I did well mentally, especially on the return. I was playing an opponent that served really well.<\/p>\n “Obviously I would like to serve better on my end, but overall, just happy to get through.”<\/p>\n Gauff survived hitting 14 double faults before taking the win in 2 hours and 32 minutes. After losing her first career meeting with Kudermetova, Gauff has now won their last three encounters on tour.<\/p>\n The 21-year-old Gauff is also is the youngest player to register 10 career match-wins at this tournament since Justine Henin in 2003.<\/p>\n Picking up wins again: After Gauff claimed her second Grand Slam singles title at Roland Garros in June, she suffered a two-match winless blip, losing her opening contests at Berlin and Wimbledon. In her first match this week, she needed a third-set tiebreak to squeak past former World No. 7 Danielle Collins.<\/p>\n Former World No. 9 Kudermetova also gave Gauff a stern test, but this time, the American dominated the third set after coming back from a one-set deficit. Gauff is now a win away from making her fourth Omnium Banque Nationale quarterfinal in her five tournament appearances.<\/p>\n Tale of the match: On Thursday, Gauff saw a 4-1 first-set lead slip away, and at 4-4, 40-15, the American lost five of the next eight points with double faults. Kudermetova took advantage, firing strong groundstroke winners from both wings as she wrapped up the set.<\/p>\n Three more Gauff double faults in the opening game of the second set gave Kudermetova a hefty set-and-a-break lead, but the typically gritty Gauff started to turn the match around as the set progressed. Gauff was able to pull back level, breaking for 3-3 with a forehand return winner.<\/p>\n Gauff was not out of the woods just yet, and she had to save break points in both her 4-4 and 5-5 service games, barely denying Kudermetova chances to serve for a straight-sets win. But the American did scrape to 6-5, at which point Kudermetova blinked, slamming a backhand smash into the net to give Gauff the second set.<\/p>\n “I just think I got really upset with myself and I was just like, \u2018You know, just try to hit the ball hard and deep in the court,\u2019” Gauff said, reflecting on her second-set turnaround. “Eventually I was able to turn that anger into something more positive.”<\/p>\n After that set, Gauff took charge, breaking Kudermetova at love for a 2-0 lead in the decider. Gauff eased home from there, and the match ended with Kudermetova’s first double fault of the day. Gauff finished the match with a 5-for-10 break point conversion rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 1 seed Coco Gauff of the United States returned to winning form Thursday with a three-set victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428,1959],"class_list":{"0":"post-52907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52907","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=52907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}