Coco Gauff marched into the Dongfeng Voyah · Wuhan Open semifinals with a 6-0, 6-4 victory over Poland's Magda Linette on Friday. The 1 hour and 24-minute victory marked China Open champion Gauff's ninth straight match win in China.
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Gauff's earlier win in opposition to Linette all-time was a three-set triumph on the 2021 US Open when she was 17 years previous. Meeting the Polish veteran once more three years later, the present World No.4 was beneath no menace of dropping a set in opposition to a participant who toppled a pair of seeds — No.11 Liudmila Samsonova and No.8 Daria Kasatkina — to attain her first WTA 1000 quarterfinal.
“I'm really happy with how I played,” Gauff mentioned. “Obviously a smooth first set. Had chances to maybe close it out in the 5-3 game in the second, but happy I was able to close it out on my serve.”
She by no means misplaced serve within the victory and broke Linette's serve 4 instances to turn out to be the primary lady by means of to the semifinals in Wuhan, the place she's going to face both No.1 seed Aryna Sabalenka or one other Polish participant, Magdalena Frech.
More numbers from Gauff's victory included:
3: Gauff is the third American to attain the singles semifinals in Wuhan following Venus Williams in 2015 and Alison Riske-Amritraj in 2019.
5: Gauff saved all 5 break factors she confronted within the match, 4 of which got here within the first set. Three of these got here in her first service recreation: Having already damaged Linette to begin the match, Gauff wiggled out of a 15-40 deficit to set up a 2-0 lead early on.
8: Despite by no means dropping serve, Gauff struck eight double faults. The second serve was an space of concern for the American within the match, regardless of the dominant scoreline. She received lower than 50% of these factors, together with a 4-for-13 clip within the first set.
12: Gauff received 12 of 14 factors at a essential level of the second set to ease her means to victory. Trailing 3-2, she held at love, broke Linette at 15, and held once more to 15 to put herself one recreation away from victory.
19: Gauff struck 19 winners to Linette's 13, and hit simply 16 unforced errors. Linette struck 22 unforced errors.
50: Gauff has now earned 50 match wins for the second straight season, the third participant to accomplish that on the Hologic WTA Tour this yr after Iga Swiatek and Aryna Sabalenka. Gauff is the youngest participant to safe 50 or extra WTA main-draw wins (which this yr contains two victories on the Olympics) in back-to-back seasons since Caroline Wozniacki in 2009-10.
