Staying one step away from glory Roland Garros 2022, Coco Gauff, At 19 years old, he was considered the greatest asset in American tennis for the next decade. This Sunday he took a step forward and won in cincinnati first name VTA 1000 of his young career, beating the Czech Karolina Muchova on 6-3 and 6-4.
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Gauff, number seven in the world ranking, need one hour and 56 minutes beat Mukhova, house 17, and won him third title of the season, after Oakland and Washington.
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American player who looks now five titles in his palms, returned this tournament to his country for the first time since 2019 when he won it Madison Keys.
✅ First WTA 1000 title
🏆 Youngest female singles champion Sinsi
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became first player under 20 able win five titles since the Danes got it Caroline Wozniacki in 2008 and shot down Mukhova, this year’s finalist Roland Garros, in the first confrontation between them.
Despite defeat the Czech player will become the 10th number in the world as of this Monday, the best position of his career. He ends the tournament, in which he was on the track for almost twelve hours (Gauff was a little over eight) and in which he managed to defeat the Greek. Maria Sakkari already Belarusian Arina Sobolenko.
Gauff emerged victorious in the match marked uneven delivery of both players.
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There were up to eleven breakballs in the first set. Gauff missed six and Muchovafive, but the American remade them more successfully.
His three breakswhich culminated in the eighth game, allowed himwin the first set by 6-3 in 44 minutes.
Both Gauf and Muchova They came from a very demanding semi-final they were almost three hours on the road respectively win the polish Iga Swiatek already Belarusian Arina Sobolenko.
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— Western and Southern Open (@CincyTennis) August 20, 2023
And the second set kept that intensitywith long games eight out of ten reached forty equals, where the little details mattered.
Gauff annulled two breakballs at 1-2 in lightweight and then received two consecutive “breaks” which allowed him to serve at the game with the score 5-3.
It was at the moment when American paid with tension. He served badly on the pitch and Muchova restored one of the two breaks. However, in the next game, he pressed the gas pedal again and He sentenced the game with a final 6-4.
Gauff come with great enthusiasm US Open, which starts in New York on August 28 and ends on September 10. Last year the American reached quarterfinal at Flushing Meadows.
(According to information from EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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