{"id":53261,"date":"2025-10-12T06:13:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/coco-gauff-overcomes-double-faults-will-face-pegula-in-wuhan-final\/12\/10\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T06:13:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:13:39","slug":"coco-gauff-overcomes-double-faults-will-face-pegula-in-wuhan-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/coco-gauff-overcomes-double-faults-will-face-pegula-in-wuhan-final\/12\/10\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff overcomes double faults; will face Pegula in Wuhan final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WUHAN, China &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"ca44c2b0-9dea-ab40-2541-b50a4442ff8e\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3626\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Coco Gauff<\/a> overcame seven double faults to beat <a data-player-guid=\"1cb6cc14-00ad-6c8b-301e-aa8adc243503\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jasmine Paolini<\/a> and will meet compatriot <a data-player-guid=\"63f9c1e5-14bd-003f-c269-31543931ad1d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jessica Pegula<\/a> in the Wuhan Open final after the 31-year-old American ended top-ranked <a data-player-guid=\"c91d133a-526a-ea8d-654c-7ef6915ad63b\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3038\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>&#8216;s winning streak at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff saw off Paolini 6-4, 6-3 on Saturday after winning the battle of converted breaks 7-5 as both top-10 players struggled with their serves.<\/p>\n<p>Pegula won a 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (2) nail-biter to set up the all-American final and end Sabalenka&#8217;s 20-match Wuhan winning streak. Pegula holds a 4-2 advantage over Gauff in head-to-head matchups, though this is the first time they will meet in a final.<\/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\/46550644\/aryna-sabalenka-extends-wuhan-winning-streak-20-matches\" 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\/46560042\/valentin-vacherot-stuns-novak-djokovic-shanghai-masters\" 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>The third-ranked Gauff fought back from three breaks in the second set, which included a run of five consecutive double faults, and won the final four games to advance to the final.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did what I needed to do to get through,&#8221; Gauff said.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Gauff, who changed her serving coach in August, leads the women&#8217;s circuit this season with 378 double faults, over 120 more than the next player.<\/p>\n<p>But she also excelled in another stat: Her 13 career wins over top-10 players at WTA 1000 events are the most by any player before turning 22 since 2009, the circuit said.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth-ranked Paolini had eliminated Wimbledon champion <a data-player-guid=\"0fe63041-889b-62ef-16ef-0a46542271f3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Iga Swiatek<\/a> in the quarterfinals and had won her previous three matches against Gauff, all played this season.<\/p>\n<p>The sixth-ranked Pegula was down 5-2 in the final set before winning four straight games. Sabalenka then saved two match points in the next game to force the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka won the Wuhan Open in 2018 and 2019 and again in 2024 after the event returned to the circuit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/46560807\/coco-gauff-overcomes-double-faults-vs-pegula-wuhan-final\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WUHAN, China &mdash; Coco Gauff overcame seven double faults to beat Jasmine Paolini and will meet compatriot Jessica Pegula in the Wuhan<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/coco-gauff-overcomes-double-faults-will-face-pegula-in-wuhan-final\/12\/10\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53262,"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":[114,1089,1297,7373,153,115,2698,1706,7362],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2025\/1011\/r1558662_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53261"}],"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=53261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53263,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53261\/revisions\/53263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}