American Coco Gauff’s ninth straight victory took her to the semifinals of the Wuhan tennis tournament on Friday.category 1,000, after defeating the Polish Magda Linette 6-0 and 6-4.
Before moving easily into this event’s draw, Gauff won the China Open in Beijing last week.
The world number four, 20 years old, was not threatened by the blows of Linette, 32, who played in the quarterfinals for the first time in a tournament of this category. Gauff just got weaker on his serve, but on the exchanges and so on he couldn’t get close.
In the semifinals she will face the first seed, the Belarusian Aryna Sabalankawho authoritatively defeated another Polish player, Magdalena French, 6-2, 6-2.
In the other quarterfinal matchup, China’s Xinyu Wang, ranked number 51, beat Russia’s Ekaterina Alexandrova on a comeback. (33 WTA) by 4-6, 7-5 and 7-6 (6), in one of the best results of her career. He saved two match points before winning the final tiebreaker.
She expects a rivalry between her compatriot Qinwen Zheng and Italian Jasmine Paolini, fifth and third favorites in Wuhan.
Source: La Verdad
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