BEIJING — French Open winner Coco Gauff was compelled to go the gap in opposition to Leylah Fernandez earlier than closing out a decent 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 favourite 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, who defeated Australian Priscilla Hon 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 on the WTA 1000 sequence 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.
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The event is being held concurrently with an ATP 500 males’s event.
A day after changing into the most recent tennis star to apologize to Chinese language followers, Lorenzo Musetti had a much less eventful 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 ninth-ranked Musetti within the quarterfinals.
Third-ranked Alexander Zverev defeated Corentin Moutet 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 and can subsequent face Daniil Medvedev.
