{"id":873219,"date":"2026-10-06T21:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/873219\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T21:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:40:21","slug":"coco-gauff-says-insane-wave-of-racist-abuse-followed-disputed-point-at-china-open-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/873219\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff says \u2018insane\u2019 wave of racist abuse followed disputed point at China Open | Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coco Gauff said she received an \u201cinsane\u201d amount of racist \u00adcomments on social media \u00adfollowing a \u00adcontroversial point in her China Open match against the home player Sun\u00a0Xinran.<\/p>\n

Gauff stopped a rally after \u00adelectronic advertising boards \u00adlining\u00a0the court flickered during a point late in the first set of her 7-5, 6-1 third-round victory over Sun, a 16-year-old who recently won the US\u00a0Open junior title.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHey everyone, you can dislike me or disagree about what happened without being racist,\u201d Gauff said in a reply on X. \u201cThe amount of racist comments\/dms I\u2019ve received in the last few hours is insane. Lastly, I\u2019m not a cheater or a thief.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sun appeared about to win the point when Gauff stopped playing. The chair umpire then ordered the point to be replayed. Gauff, a two-time grand slam champion ranked No 4, went on to take control of the match on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s weird I\u2019m \u00adgetting hate for \u00adfollowing the rules. \u00adXinran is [an] incredible talent and player, I \u00adapologised for the situation at the end of the match and she \u00adcompletely understood,\u201d Gauff added in another\u00a0post.<\/p>\n

Sun, who was given a wildcard entry by tournament organisers and was making her WTA Tour debut, appeared distraught after the loss. Gauff, who reached the fourth round of Wimbledon as a 15-year-old in 2019<\/a>, sympathised with Sun. \u201cI did not like to see her so emotional as I\u2019ve been there and I really \u00adunderstand what it is like but this is just the \u00adbeginning of an incredible career,\u201d Gauff said. \u201cIt was an honour to share the court in front of her home crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff said she received an \u201cinsane\u201d amount of racist \u00adcomments on social media \u00adfollowing a \u00adcontroversial point…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-873219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873219","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=873219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}