{"id":24129,"date":"2025-09-28T06:44:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T10:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/cocogoffs-up-to-the-third-round-of-the-china-open\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T06:44:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T10:44:52","slug":"cocogoffs-up-to-the-third-round-of-the-china-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/cocogoffs-up-to-the-third-round-of-the-china-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocogoffs up to the third round of the China Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>BEIJING &#8211; French open winner Coco Gauff was forced to go to the distance from Leila Fernandez before closing out tight three-setters 6-4, 4-6 and 7-5 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing&#8217;s defending champion and solid crowd favorites overcome the second set and struggled to play the match in the third, then broke Fernandez in the 12th game of the deciding set.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff will then face No. 16 Belinda Benchic or Australian Priscilla Hon in the WTA 1000 Series tournament.<\/p>\n<p>In previous match Sunday, Eva Reese beat No. 10 Elena Rivakina 6-3, 1-6, 6-4, with American McCartney Kessler leading Barbola Krezikova 1-6, 7-5, 3-0 when the Czech players retired from the match.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament is being held at the same time as the ATP 500 men&#8217;s tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The day after becoming the latest tennis star to apologise to Chinese fans, Lorenzo Musetti had an eventful straight set victory against tour veteran Adrian Mannarino 6-3, 6-3 in his second match.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, learner Tien defeated Flavio Koboli 6-3, 6-2, setting up a meeting with 9th place Musetti in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Third ranked Alexander Zverev will play France&#8217;s Corentinmut in the evening match later on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING &#8211; French open winner Coco Gauff was forced to go to the distance from Leila Fernandez before closing out tight three-setters 6-4, 4-6 and 7-5 on Sunday. Beijing&#8217;s defending champion and solid crowd favorites overcome the second set and struggled to play the match in the third, then broke Fernandez in the 12th game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1538,6422,32,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-24129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-cocogoffs","10":"tag-open","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}