{"id":26134,"date":"2025-11-04T14:45:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/04\/defending-champion-coco-gauff-returns-to-advance-to-wta-finals\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T14:45:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:45:42","slug":"defending-champion-coco-gauff-returns-to-advance-to-wta-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/04\/defending-champion-coco-gauff-returns-to-advance-to-wta-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending champion Coco Gauff returns to advance to WTA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &#8212; Defending champion Coco Gauff revived her chances of reaching the WTA Finals with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Jasmine Paolini on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff also improved her serve, committing just three double faults, far fewer than the 17 she recorded in her first match, a three-set loss to Jessica Pegula.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe definitely turned it around from the first game,\u201d Gauff said. &#8220;The great thing about this tournament is that you get another chance to prove yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gauff will next face top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka for a spot in the season finale of the top eight players, but Paolini was eliminated from contention with two losses.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka beat Pegula 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 to take first place in her group.<\/p>\n<p>Paolini also competed in doubles with partner Sara Errani at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think Jasmine was 100% today,&#8221; Gauff said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not easy to play both singles and doubles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &#8212; Defending champion Coco Gauff revived her chances of reaching the WTA Finals with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Jasmine Paolini on Tuesday. Gauff also improved her serve, committing just three double faults, far fewer than the 17 she recorded in her first match, a three-set loss to Jessica Pegula. \u201cWe definitely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[292,241,57,2864,111,399,702,24,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-26134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-advance","9":"tag-champion","10":"tag-coco","11":"tag-defending","12":"tag-finals","13":"tag-gauff","14":"tag-returns","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26134","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=26134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}