{"id":77126,"date":"2025-08-12T12:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/77126\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T12:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:25:04","slug":"coco-gauff-challenges-martina-hingis-for-key-wta-record-after-winning-at-the-cincinnati-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/77126\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff challenges Martina Hingis for key WTA record after winning at the Cincinnati Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Coco Gauff has won her opening round match at the Cincinnati Open; bouncing back from a shock loss to Victoria Mboko at the Canadian Open.<\/p>\n<p>The American <a href=\"https:\/\/tennishead.net\/coco-gauff-said-to-be-in-very-surprising-spot-right-now-after-looking-confused-on-court-in-canada\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">struggled for consistency at the Canadian Open<\/a>, particularly on her serve. Gauff served an astonishing 23 double faults during a three-set victory over compatriot Danielle Collins in <a href=\"https:\/\/tennishead.net\/tag\/canadian-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/tennishead.net\/tag\/coco-gauff\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gauff<\/a> seems to have found some form in Midwest America, defeating China\u2019s Wang Xinyu in her opening match.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2229430861-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Coco Gauff of the United States in action against Xinyu Wang of China during the Women's Singles Second Round match on day four of the Cincinnati Open 2025 at Lindner Family Tennis Center on August 10, 2025 in Mason, Ohio.\" class=\"wp-image-318227\" \/>Photo by Daniel Kopatsch\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The victory marks a welcome return to form for Gauff, who has struggled since winning the French Open in June.<\/p>\n<p>Victory over Xinyu marked new territory for the 21-year-old, as she is now rivalling Martina Hingis in a particular statistical area.<\/p>\n<p>Coco Gauff rivals Martina Hingis after winning in Cincinnati<\/p>\n<p>Martina Hingis is a Swiss tennis legend who became the youngest ever Grand Slam singles champion when she won the 1997 Australian Open at 16 years old. She also became the youngest ever world number one in the same year.<\/p>\n<p>Hingis, who was Switzerland\u2019s first-ever Grand Slam winner and world number one, was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss star won 25 Grand Slams during her esteemed career: five singles titles, 13 doubles titles and seven mixed doubles titles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-1227775616-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Swiss player Martina Hingis (Ex WTA 1) reacts during the ceremony of the Swiss Tennis Pro Cup exhibition tournament on July 25, 2020 in Biel.\" class=\"wp-image-318228\" \/>Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Skipping ahead to 2025 and Coco Gauff has challenged one of the many records set by Hingis, after defeating her Chinese opponent 6-3 6-2 at the Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n<p>As per <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/optaace\/status\/1954616662168396061?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">OptaAce<\/a>, Coco Gauff has moved past her opening match in 36 of the 44 WTA-1000 tournaments she has appeared in.<\/p>\n<p>Only Martina Hingis has won more opening matches in Tier1\/WTA-1000 tournaments before turning 22. The Swiss legend won her opening match at 46 Tier1\/WTA-1000 tournaments before turning 22.<\/p>\n<p>Coco Gauff previews rematch against Dayana Yastremska<\/p>\n<p>Coco Gauff has drawn a familiar foe in the <a href=\"https:\/\/tennishead.net\/tag\/cincinnati-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Open<\/a> third round: Dayana Yastremska.<\/p>\n<p>The American was stunned by Yastremska in the <a href=\"https:\/\/tennishead.net\/tag\/wimbledon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wimbledon<\/a> first round, with the Ukrainian winning 7-6 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of their rematch at the Cincinnati Open, Coco Gauff discussed whether she was out for \u2018revenge\u2019 against the Ukrainian.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters, Gauff said: \u201cI don\u2019t ever think of revenge-type of tennis. At first I used to think like that but then I\u2019m like, I\u2019ve played too many people too many times to have like a revenge mindset.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut no, I think for me it\u2019s a good measure to see where my game is. I feel like that Wimbledon match, you know, it was just a tough loss for me, and I don\u2019t think I approached it as well, and Dayana\u2019s\u2026 I always have trouble against her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s a tough opponent, great ball striker, can pull winners out of anywhere. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo yeah, it\u2019ll be a tough test for me, especially having to play her again. But you know I think I had more time to work on things on the hard court season and definitely I think a better surface than grass for me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo yeah, it\u2019s going to be a tough match. But I\u2019m looking forward to it, and\u00a0hopefully I can do better than \u2018Wimby\u2019 [Wimbledon].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff has won her opening round match at the Cincinnati Open; bouncing back from a shock loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[37370,5113,33294,99,428,7642],"class_list":{"0":"post-77126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-cincinnati-open","9":"tag-coco-gauff","10":"tag-martina-hingis","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-wta-tennis-players"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77126","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=77126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}