Coco Gauff defeats Eva Lys to reach China Open semifinal

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The second-seeded American reached her archetypal semifinal since the French Open successful June.

Published On 2 Oct 2025

Coco Gauff enactment down a spirited situation from 66th-ranked Eva Lys to gain a 6-3 6-4 triumph successful Beijing connected Thursday and scope the China Open semifinals for a 2nd successive year.

Gauff, who is bidding to go the archetypal pistillate to triumph back-to-back titles astatine the WTA 1000 event, had battled done three-setters successful the erstwhile 2 rounds and had to flooded stiff absorption from the German.

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“I’m blessed with however I played today. She’s a pugnacious opponent, she deed a mates of large shots connected the run,” Gauff said.

“I deliberation I request to enactment assured successful my crippled and not beryllium excessively passive erstwhile I person the lead. I played 1 passive constituent successful this match, but different I played well.”

It was a accelerated and furious commencement to the archetypal acceptable arsenic some players fired disconnected a drawstring of winners and traded aboriginal breaks arsenic the momentum swung wildly.

Following a tally of 5 consecutive breaks of service it was defending champion Gauff who yet seized control, taking a 5-3 pb erstwhile Lys sent a backhand wide and past consolidating to clinch the archetypal set.

The satellite fig 3 appeared to person recovered her scope connected service successful the 2nd acceptable and eased done a mates of holds, but a little wobble and a fewer double-faults from the American added immoderate precocious drama.

Serving for the lucifer astatine 5-4, however, Gauff held her nervus to adjacent retired the triumph successful an hr and 28 minutes.

The two-time Grand Slam champion adjacent faces either compatriot Amanda Anisimova oregon Italian Jasmine Paolini, who conscionable successful the 2nd quarterfinal connected Thursday.