{"id":8532,"date":"2025-06-17T02:32:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T06:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/17\/coco-gauff-dominates-in-french-open-second-round-match-against-tereza-valentova\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T02:32:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T06:32:02","slug":"coco-gauff-dominates-in-french-open-second-round-match-against-tereza-valentova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/17\/coco-gauff-dominates-in-french-open-second-round-match-against-tereza-valentova\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff dominates in French Open Second Round match against Tereza Valentova"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Coco Gough only needed two sets to overcome Teleza Valentois in the second round of Thursday&#8217;s French Open.<\/p>\n<p>The American star defeated Czech challengers 6-2, 6-4 on Suzanne Lendgren&#8217;s court to advance to the third round. Gauff will face another Czech player on Saturday at Marie Bouzkov\u00e1.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s match was the 2018 and 2024 French Open Junior Champions conference. But Goff&#8217;s slight age and edge of experience allowed her to wipe out her 18-year-old enemy.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff, 21, used speed to seduce and overcome Velentova. The game plan paid off as second seed Gauff won the first set with three service breaks, including one to secure a set point.<\/p>\n<p>In the second set, Gauff and Velentova recorded 10 service breaks before Gauff broke through for the victory.<\/p>\n<p>The victory means Gauff won 12 of 13 matches against his younger opponent. Goff&#8217;s only loss to a young player was against Diana Schneider in the third round of the National Bank in Toronto last August.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Gough has yet to reach the third set of the French Open this year. He beats Oliviaga deck in front of Valentois. Like her, Gauff&#8217;s next opponent, Bouzkov\u00e1, overcame his previous two opponents, Anna Kalinskaya and Sonay Kartal, in two sets.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on the women&#8217;s side of the tournament, third seed Jessica Pegra won two sets over American Anne Lee, while seventh seed Madison Keys advanced in two sets against British Katie Boulter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coco Gough only needed two sets to overcome Teleza Valentois in the second round of Thursday&#8217;s French Open. The American star defeated Czech challengers 6-2, 6-4 on Suzanne Lendgren&#8217;s court to advance to the third round. Gauff will face another Czech player on Saturday at Marie Bouzkov\u00e1. advertisement Thursday&#8217;s match was the 2018 and 2024 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[57,1078,151,399,285,32,24,2652,2653],"class_list":{"0":"post-8532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-coco","9":"tag-dominates","10":"tag-french","11":"tag-gauff","12":"tag-match","13":"tag-open","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-tereza","16":"tag-valentova"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532","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=8532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}