BEIJING — French Open winner Coco Gauff was compelled to go the gap in opposition to Canada’s Leylah Fernandez earlier than closing out a good three-setter 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 on Sunday to advance to the third spherical on the China Open.
The defending champion and a agency crowd favorite in Beijing overcame a second-set stumble after which struggled to serve out the match within the third, earlier than breaking Fernandez within the twelfth recreation of the deciding set to clinch it.
Gauff will subsequent face No. 16 Belinda Bencic or Australian Priscilla Hon within the WTA 1000-series event.
In earlier matches Sunday, Eva Lys beat No. 10 Elena Rybakina 6-3, 1-6, 6-4 and American McCartney Kessler was main Barbora Krejcikova 1-6, 7-5, 3-0 when the Czech participant retired from the match.
The event is being held concurrently with an ATP 500 males’s event.
Second-seeded Alexander Zverev rallied from a break down within the deciding set to defeat Thirty seventh-ranked Corentin Moutet 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 to arrange a quarterfinal matchup in opposition to Daniil Medvedev, who obtained previous Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-3, 6-3.
A day after turning into the most recent tennis star to make an apology to Chinese language followers, Lorenzo Musetti had a straight-sets victory over tour veteran Adrian Mannarino 6-3, 6-3 in a second-round match.
Earlier, Learner Tien beat Flavio Cobolli 6-3, 6-2 to arrange a gathering with the No. 9-ranked Musetti within the quarterfinals.
Japan Open: Alcaraz’s report
Carlos Alcaraz comfortably defeated Brandon Nakashima 6-2, 6-4 to succeed in the semifinals of the Japan Open along with his sixty fifth match win of the season to equal his personal-best tally in a single season, in keeping with the ATP Tour. He additionally had 65 wins in 2023.
“It’s nice to undergo, to play one other semifinal,” the 22-year-old Alcaraz stated. “It’s particular as a result of it’s the primary time I’m taking part in right here in Japan and right here in Tokyo, so to succeed in the semifinals in my first look is one thing nice.”
Alcaraz will subsequent face Casper Ruud, the fourth-seeded Norwegian who defeated Aleksandar Vukic 6-3, 6-2.
