{"id":15285,"date":"2024-01-06T23:07:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T04:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/coco-gauff-back-in-auckland-final-will-face-elina-svitolina\/06\/01\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-01-06T23:07:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T04:07:15","slug":"coco-gauff-back-in-auckland-final-will-face-elina-svitolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/coco-gauff-back-in-auckland-final-will-face-elina-svitolina\/06\/01\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff back in Auckland final, will face Elina Svitolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>AUCKLAND, New Zealand &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3626\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Coco Gauff<\/a> will defend her title at the Auckland Classic against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=1797\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Elina Svitolina<\/a> after beating fellow American <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3785\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Emma Navarro<\/a> 6-3, 6-1 in a semifinal Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff needed only 62 minutes to sweep past fourth-seeded Navarro and now has won 18 straight sets and nine consecutive matches over two years in Auckland. She has lost only 15 games in four matches this year.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff&#8217;s win in Auckland last year was the start of a golden run that culminated with her first major title at the US Open. She seems in similar, compelling form this year, dominating matches with her serve and powerful ground shots.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/39251539\/aryna-sabalenka-sets-brisbane-final-elena-rybakina\" class=\"img-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/39250555\/iga-swiatek-hubert-hurkacz-lead-poland-united-cup-final\" class=\"img-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img style=\"display:block\" class=\"lazyload\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=75&resize=75 75w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=100&resize=100 100w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=150&resize=150 150w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=240&resize=240 240w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=320&resize=320 320w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=500&resize=500 500w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=640&resize=640 640w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=800&resize=800 800w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=1024&resize=1024 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=1280&resize=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=1600&resize=1600 1600w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>She set down 10 aces in 12 games in beating Navarro.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a good start to my 2024,&#8221; Gauff said. &#8220;Emma&#8217;s a great player. We&#8217;ve played each other when I was like 12 years old and she was 15, so it&#8217;s our second time playing since then. So it&#8217;s really cool to play on this stage. I wish her the best for the rest of the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gauff, who is now 19, broke Navarro, 22, in the opening game of the second set and went on to win the set in 32 minutes in a controlled and dominating performance. Her deep ground shots allowed her to follow to the net where she dominated and used her powerful forehand with accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just being aggressive with my serve and return,&#8221; Gauff said. &#8220;We played one set in practice over here before the tournament began and she was playing really well so I think I knew I had to be at my best to be able to win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gauff&#8217;s opponent in Sunday&#8217;s final will be second-seeded Svitolina, who needed two medical timeouts on her way to a 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 win over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Wang Xiyu<\/a> of China.<\/p>\n<p>Svitolina dropped her serve in the third game of the first set and again, to love, in the fifth game to trail 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>She received courtside treatment for a lower back injury then left the court for a medical timeout. When she returned, she immediately broke Wang&#8217;s serve but lost her own and lost the set 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Svitolina took the second set with a solitary break in the 10th game. She called for another medical timeout at the start of the third set but returned to hold serve and to break Wang for 3-1 and 5-1 leads.<\/p>\n<p>Wang broke back in the seventh game, but Svitolina rallied and served out the set in the ninth game with two aces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/39251098\/coco-gauff-back-auckland-final-face-elina-svitolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUCKLAND, New Zealand &mdash; Coco Gauff will defend her title at the Auckland Classic against Elina Svitolina after beating fellow American Emma<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/coco-gauff-back-in-auckland-final-will-face-elina-svitolina\/06\/01\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[3823,114,3848,1297,153,115,3849],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15287,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15285\/revisions\/15287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}