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Coco Gauff explains why she found it ‘awkward’ beating Emma Raducanu at Italian Open
Coco Gauff has admitted that the conditions in Rome made Monday’s victory over Emma Raducanu an ‘awkward’ one. It certainly didn’t look tricky for the American, as she dominated her British opponent to come away with a 6-1 6-2 win and advance to the Italian Open quarter-finals.
Both players battled through gusts of wind inside Grand Stand Arena, but Gauff was better able to cope as she stopped Raducanu’s impressive tournament run in style. Former US Open champion Raducanu came through tests against Maya Joint, Jil Teichmann and Veronika Kudermetova to set up a meeting with the fourth seed in only her second appearance on Rome’s clay courts.
Even though the final scoreline was emphatic, Gauff insisted she didn’t have everything her own way. The 21-year-old said in her post-match press conference: “[I needed] a little bit of luck because it was super windy so some points were very awkward to play.
“I would say my serve and definitely my forehand [hurt Raducanu]. I think I was able to use that a lot to move her around the court and really put her on defence for most of the match. So I think those were the two keys.”
She continued: “I knew it was going to be a tougher match. She’s been playing some great tennis, and you know, she had a good win over Veronika which is not easy to do. So yeah, I’m really happy with how I played today and yeah definitely my best match so far here.”
Gauff has not dropped a set since her opening match against 18-year-old Canadian, Victoria Mboko. But things could get tougher for her in the quarter-finals, where she has drawn seventh seed Mirra Andreeva.
Teenage star Andreeva has enjoyed an incredible year so far, taking overall victories at the Dubai Tennis Championships and Indian Wells. She did, however, come unstuck against Gauff in their Madrid Open quarter-final meeting just two weeks ago.
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We’re reaching the business end of the Paris Masters, as eight players become four in the French capital. Jannik Sinner is the overwhelming favourite to lift the trophy after Carlos Alcaraz was dumped out by Cameron Norrie in the Spaniard’s opening match. Norrie was then beaten by Valentin Vacherot, whose amazing 10-match winning streak at Masters 1000 level came to an end when he lost to Felix Auger-Aliassime.
Canadian star Auger-Aliassime will face Alexander Bublik in the semis. Bublik defeated Alex de Minaur, who is among those to have already qualified for the year-end ATP Finals. Sinner is through to his first Paris Masters semi-final after beating Ben Shelton. He’ll face defending champion Alexander Zverev, who survived a tough match against Daniil Medvedev.
Novak Djokovic is not involved in the Paris Masters, having decided to skip the event for the second year in a row, but he has learned his fate in the draw of next week’s ATP 250 in Athens. And over in Riyadh, the WTA Finals are about to get underway.
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