{"id":547494,"date":"2026-03-27T01:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/547494\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T01:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:23:08","slug":"miami-open-american-coco-gauff-cruises-into-first-final-of-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/547494\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Open: American Coco Gauff cruises into first final of tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was not as straightforward as the scoreline suggests,&#8221; Gauff told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t nervous, but whenever you play someone so many times, it is hard to keep doing what you&#8217;ve been doing and also change it up. Today, I found a good balance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It feels great to be at home. I am alternating between my parents&#8217; house and my own, depending on how late we finish. They live a bit closer, so it is nice to have that family support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The victory will take the two-time Grand Slam champion above former world number one Swiatek and up to third in the WTA rankings next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gauff, currently ranked fourth in the world, will face the winner of Friday&#8217;s match between Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I haven&#8217;t played either this year, so it will be a good match-up to see where I am,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am going out there with the belief that I can win.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It was not as straightforward as the scoreline suggests,&#8221; Gauff told Sky Sports. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t nervous, but whenever&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-547494","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\/547494","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=547494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}