{"id":8727,"date":"2025-06-19T14:58:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T18:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/coco-gauff-loses-its-first-match-since-the-french-open-title\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T14:58:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T18:58:47","slug":"coco-gauff-loses-its-first-match-since-the-french-open-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/coco-gauff-loses-its-first-match-since-the-french-open-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff loses its first match since the French Open title"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Newly crowned French Open Champion Coco Gouf was surprised when he returned to action on Thursday, losing to China’s qualifying king XINYU 6-3, 6-3 at the Berlin Open.<\/p>\n

The second Golf, who won the second Grand Slam title at Roland Garros two weeks ago, accumulated 25 forced errors and seven double faults in the loss.<\/p>\n

Golf had goodbye to the second round at the Grass Court Tournament, a warm-up at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

Ranked 49th, the king said he was satisfied with the first set, taking into account his opponent’s level.<\/p>\n

“After winning the first set, “Okay, let’s take a moment to enjoy this. I played the French Open Championship and won the first set,” Wang said in an on-court interview. “No matter how the second and third went, I was like, ‘OK, let’s have a bit of fun.’<\/p>\n

“I’m really happy with my playing today. I’ve served well and put a lot of pressure on my return, especially my second and third return.”<\/p>\n

Gouf looked uncomfortable with the smooth grass and broke in the seventh game. The king clinched the set after Golf double-faulted in the deuce and sank a drop shot into the net at the set point.<\/p>\n

Gouf broke to advance 3-1 in the second set, but the King ran five games in a row for victory.<\/p>\n

Alina Sabalenka played for the first time since losing to Gouf in the French Open Final, reaching the quarterfinals 6-2, 7-6 (6) to Rebekah Masalov\u00e1, finishing the game suspended on Wednesday in slippery conditions.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka was on the set Wednesday when plays stopped after tournament officials said the courts were too slippery when the humidity rises after sunset.<\/p>\n

When the game resumed Thursday, the 27-year-old broke at the start of the second set, down 3-1 and 4-2. However, she broke with a fine volley to keep her cool and force a tiebreak.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka wasted two match points before sealing the victory on the next opportunity when Masarova sank a midcourt forehand into the net. She will then face Kazakhstan’s Elena Ribakina.<\/p>\n

2023 Wimbledon champion Marita Vondrousova took three sets, two hours and 20 minutes to break Diana Schneider’s resistance.<\/p>\n

Vondrousova, who was 6-5 and 30-0 in the second set, advanced with a 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-3 victory, facing two-time Wimbledon finalist Lucky Loser Ons Jabeur in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to the report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newly crowned French Open Champion Coco Gouf was surprised when he returned to action on Thursday, losing to China’s qualifying king XINYU 6-3, 6-3 at the Berlin Open. The second Golf, who won the second Grand Slam title at Roland Garros two weeks ago, accumulated 25 forced errors and seven double faults in the loss. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[57,151,399,2713,285,32,24,361],"class_list":{"0":"post-8727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-coco","9":"tag-french","10":"tag-gauff","11":"tag-loses","12":"tag-match","13":"tag-open","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-title"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8727","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=8727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}