BEIJING — French Open winner Coco Gauff was pressured to go the gap in opposition to Canada’s Leylah Fernandez earlier than closing out a good 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 favorite 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 sport of the deciding set to clinch it.
Gauff will subsequent face No. 16 Belinda Bencic or Australian Priscilla Hon within the WTA 1000-series match.
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.
The match is being held concurrently with an ATP 500 males’s match.
A day after changing into the most recent tennis star to make an apology to Chinese language followers, Lorenzo Musetti had a much less eventful straight units victory over tour veteran Adrian Mannarino 6-3, 6-3 in a second spherical 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 performs Corentin Moutet of France in an evening match later Sunday.
