For much of her match with Iva Jovic, Coco Gauff looked like she was set for a difficult loss at the Italian Open.<\/p>\n
The star faced match points in the second set, but she managed to fight back and book her place in the quarter-finals of the Rome event in impressive fashion.<\/p>\n
This is becoming a trend for Gauff, after she looked all-but-beaten in her match against Solana Sierra, as she fell a break down in the deciding set.<\/p>\n
Despite Gauff\u2019s brilliant victory against Jovic<\/a>, Annabel Croft<\/a> has shared her concern for the 21-year-old following her match against the teenager.<\/p>\n Talking about Gauff\u2019s<\/a> current inconsistency while on Sky Sports commentary duties, Croft said: \u201cI think it\u2019s a little bit inexplicable to be honest with you because it\u2019s sort of a pattern which is in her matches. As I said before, I\u2019m not even sure if she knows why this happens.<\/p>\n \u201cBecause she tries to address it all, and there are moments where it becomes solid. It\u2019s a mind thing isn\u2019t it? The worst thing in tennis is that you overthink. We hear players in interviews talking about that, they don\u2019t want to be overthinking.<\/p>\n \u201cSuddenly there are patches where she starts to overthink the techniques. Then it starts to go away and she plays with freedom, without thinking. At the moment it\u2019s sort of a concentration things isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n Despite Croft\u2019s worries, Gauff continues to add to her remarkable record at the Italian Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n Her appearance in the Italian Open quarter-final is her third consecutive last eight appearance at the Rome Masters event, as she reached the final in 2025 and the semi-final in 2024.<\/p>\n The American is the youngest player to achieve that feat since Iga Swiatek<\/a> reached three quarter-finals between 2021-2023.<\/p>\n Gauff has become also the youngest American since Mary Joe Fernandez to reach three consecutive quarter-finals at the Italian Open, which Fernandez achieved between 1991-1993.<\/p>\n The American will play Mirra Andreeva<\/a> in the last eight of the Italian Open, who she has a sensational record against on the WTA Tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n Gauff has beaten Andreeva in all four of their matches so far, which include two Grand Slam victories. She has knocked the Russian star out of Roland Garros<\/a> and the US Open<\/a>, both of which came in 2023.<\/p>\n The American also managed two victories against Andreeva in the 2025 season, both of which came on clay, and one of which will give Gauff a boost heading into their Rome meeting.<\/p>\n Gauff previously beat Andreeva in the Italian Open quarter-final last year, on her way to her very first final appearance at the Rome tournament.<\/p>\n She will be hoping the result goes the same away once more as she looks to win her very first Italian Open title this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For much of her match with Iva Jovic, Coco Gauff looked like she was set for a difficult…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-639870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639870","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=639870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}