Us Open, women: Gauff beats Wozniacki

Caroline Wozniacki was making romantics dream when she served 1-0 in her favor in the third set against Gauff, in the round of 16 of this US Open. The Dane had just won the second and was with the wind in her sails, but unlike many other times, Coco did what everyone has been prophesying and asking her for years: transform into Serena. The nineteen-year-old, below in the score, had a furious reaction, which recalled certain days of Williams, when at one point she raised her level of play to “you don’t even have to think about being able to beat me”, with the opponent barely And so Gauff, down by a break, slipped in six consecutive games, sweeping away an even exceptional Wozniacki, who obviously receives thunderous applause from Artur Ashe and those who were lucky enough to see this game, not technically amazing but really vibrant.These two really know how to play tennis, and you almost didn’t notice that it was a generational clash, won by Coco 6-3 3-6 6-1.

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Caroline, 33, mother bis, did what she could, and at one point it really seemed like she could win her, especially after that second set win, when she was mentally dominating her opponent. Gauff, however, has had Brad Gilbert in her corner for some time, who told her the right thing at the right time: to start again from the simple things, from the things that the nineteen-year-old does best, namely mobility, footwork and power, without overdoing it. No perfection, it’s not of this world. Said, done, and bye Carola. Coco now awaits the winner between Iga Swiatek and Alona Ostapenko (on the field tonight) in the quarterfinals, in a game that is by no means trivial, if only for the fact that the Pole is playing for the No. 1 in the world. The other quarter-final of this part of the draw has already been outlined, which will see the Romanian Cirstea (6-3 6-3 in Belinda Bencic) and the Czech Karolina Muchova, who beat Wang Xinyu 6-3 5- 7 6-1.