{"id":199336,"date":"2025-06-20T08:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T08:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199336\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T08:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T08:02:17","slug":"coco-gauff-stunned-in-first-match-since-winning-french-open-title-coco-gauff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199336\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff stunned in first match since winning French Open title | Coco Gauff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Newly crowned French Open champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/cori-gauff\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coco Gauff<\/a> was stunned on her return to action Thursday, losing to Chinese qualifier Wang Xinyu 6-3, 6-3 at the Berlin Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The second-ranked Gauff, who won at Roland-Garros less than two weeks ago for her second Grand Slam title, amassed 25 unforced errors and seven double faults in her loss to Wang. Gauff had a bye to the second round at the grass-court tournament, a warmup for Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Wang, ranked No 49, said she would have been pleased just with the first set, considering the level of her 21-year-old opponent. \u201cAfter I won the first set, I just told myself \u2018OK let\u2019s take a minute and enjoy this, I\u2019m playing the French Open champion, and I won the first set,\u2019\u201d she said in her on-court interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\u201cNo matter how the second and third go, I was like, \u2019OK let\u2019s just enjoy it for a second,\u2019\u201d said Wang, who will face Paula Badosa in the quarter-finals. \u201cI\u2019m really happy with how I played today. I was serving good and putting a lot of pressure on the return, especially second-serve return.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Xinyu Wang of China celebrates a point against Coco Gauff of the United States on Thursday. Photograph: Robert Prange\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka finished off Rebeka Masarova 6-2, 7-6 (6) in a match that was suspended Wednesday after one set because of a slippery court. Sabalenka had lost to Gauff at the French Open final and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/jun\/17\/aryna-sabalenka-coco-gauff-french-open\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">later apologized to the American<\/a> for making \u201cunprofessional\u201d comments after the Paris title match. Sabalenka will meet 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newly crowned French Open champion Coco Gauff was stunned on her return to action Thursday, losing to Chinese&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-199336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114714650037585564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}