Do Tennis Players Really Only Take 15 Percent Of Grand Slam Revenues?<\/a><\/p>\nPotapova responded with two consecutive breaks of her own to race 3-0 ahead at the start of the second frame.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old\u2019s serve then deserted her as well, as the next five games all produced breaks, with Potapova passing up two set points behind her own delivery.<\/p>\n
Gauff responded to that reprieve by earning her first hold of the set to force Potapova to serve again for the frame.<\/p>\n
The two-time major winner \u00a0broke the world number 30 to level at 5-5 before holding again.<\/p>\n
But Potapova then refound her own serve to force a tie-break.<\/p>\n
A double fault dropped Gauff 5-0 behind, before she finally got on the board when Potapova overcooked a backhand.<\/p>\n
It was too little, too late, however, as the Austrian powered to the next two points and sent the match into a deciding set.<\/p>\n
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\u2018Stay In The Moment\u2019<\/p>\n
Gauff drew first blood in the decider, pouncing on Potapova\u2019s serve in the third game to nose in front, before being pegged back to 3-3.<\/p>\n
A double fault in the next game brought Gauff two break-back points, but gutsy play allowed Potapova to hold.<\/p>\n
A booming backhand winner down the line and a miss-hit Gauff forehand from deuce put Potapova 5-4 ahead with the world number four serving to keep her title defence alive.<\/p>\n
But from 30-0, Gauff quickly unravelled and Potapova fell on her back in celebration as the American returned long and departed the tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I\u2019ve had a few (big wins) before, but I\u2019d put it top three for sure,\u201d Potapova said on court after earning a career third win over Gauff.<\/p>\n
Potapova said the secret to victory for her was ignoring the score.<\/p>\n
\u201cI kept on saying to myself that I don\u2019t need to focus on the scoreboard, just focus on every point,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you manage to do that, then maybe I will get my chances to win. So, yeah, the key was just stay in the moment no matter what is going on and try your best.<\/p>\n
Potapova will meet Russian 22nd seed Anna Kalinskaya for a spot in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two-time Grand Slam winner was defeated in the third round 4-6, 7-6 (7\/1), 6-4 by the 28th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4151,2816,517,28,514,463],"class_list":["post-9229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us-open","tag-frances","tag-gauff","tag-open","tag-tennis","tag-united-states","tag-us-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}