Coco Gauff rallies to win against Belinda Bencic at China Open

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The two-time expansive slam singles champion defeated Bencic successful 3 sets to beforehand to the quarterfinals successful Beijing.

Published On 30 Sep 2025

Defending champion Coco Gauff fought backmost to bushed Belinda Bencic 4-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-2 successful a tense brushwood and scope the China Open quarterfinals.

Gauff adjacent plays either Eva Lys of Germany oregon chap American McCartney Kessler successful Beijing.

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“It was a pugnacious match,” Gauff said aft her fourth-round lucifer against Bencic connected Tuesday. “I had chances successful the archetypal to adjacent it retired but wide I’m blessed with however I fought. She was being truly aggressive.”

There were frustrations connected some sides of the tribunal astatine a mostly bare stadium arsenic the players switched betwixt 1 fractional darkened by shadiness and the different successful the blazing sun.

There was a flashpoint betwixt the 2 players during a changeover successful the 2nd acceptable erstwhile Switzerland’s 15th effect Bencic said: “Your squad is chatting. I’m excessively aged for these caput games, okay?”

“You’re the 1 playing the caput games,” Gauff, the 2nd seed, changeable back.

The 21-year-old Gauff kept it unneurotic to triumph the tiebreak erstwhile Tokyo Olympic champion Bencic double-faulted connected acceptable constituent and threw her racquet successful anger.

The satellite fig 3 Gauff broke aboriginal successful the 3rd acceptable and carried that momentum done to triumph erstwhile a flagging Bencic returned into the net.

With her last-16 victory, Gauff qualified for the WTA Finals successful Saudi Arabia successful November.

“Happy to suffice erstwhile again. Happy to beryllium backmost successful Riyadh and I’m gladsome I was capable to bash it here,” Gauff told the on-court interviewer.

“It’s been a pugnacious tourney truthful far, but I’m blessed to get through.”