the American Coco Gauff (7) scored his first match against the British Emma Raducanu for 6-3 and 7-6(4) in second round of the Australian Open.
“It was a difficult game for me. The conditions were very different from my first game. From playing with the roof open and in the sun to playing at night with such heavy conditions,” he explained on a Rod Laver Arena track that witnessed a great battle between the 2021 United States Open champion, Raducanu, and the runner-up at Roland Garros in 2022, Coco Gauff.
Gauff hit six of the seven breaking balls he had and scored a first round in which both players showed no signs of trying to dominate from the bottom line.
The British response was spurred by an improvement from serve that, along with a dizzying backhand, helped him come back from 4-2 down to force a tiebreaker game that he would eventually surrender after losing the two set balls in the remainder with 5- 4 . Raducanu made up for his lack of success on break points after he converted two of the ten chances he had.
gAUFF She will have a chance to equal her best record at Melbourne Park against compatriot Bernarda Pera this Friday in one of the central states.
The only time he reached the fourth round on the banks of the Yarra, he also fell against an American. It was 2020 and her executioner was future champion Sofia Kenin (6-7 (5), 6-3 and 6-0).
The American had no trouble either Madison Keys (10) after he won his battle against the Chinese Xinyu Wang for 6-3 and 6-2.
The Illinois tennis player defends his tennis with a good serve that earns a 78% success rate on firsts and 76% points on this serve.
His next rival is the double champion in Melbourne, the Belarusian Victoria Azarenka (24), who passed through the Argentine Nadia Podoroska by endorsing a wonderful 6-1 and 6-0 in a crash that didn’t last an hour.
Kazakhs were also identified as favorites Elena Rybakina (22), who beat the Slovenian Come on Juvan for 6-2 and 6-1the czech Barbora Krejcikova (20), which prevailed in the French of the former Clara Burrell for 6-4 and 6-1Y Jelena Ostapenkowhich removed the Hungarian Anna Bondar for 7-6(5), 5-7 and 6-0.
They bid farewell to the competition as the Czech seed Petra Kvitova (15) against ukraine Angelina Kalina for 7-5 and 6-4 and the swiss Jill Teichman (32), against Lin Zhu of China by a double 6-2.
Source: La Verdad
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