No. 1 seed Coco Gauff of the United States is firmly back in her winning ways, after she toughed out another three-set victory over a former Top 10 player at the Omnium Banque Nationale on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Montreal:\u00a0<\/strong>Draws<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>|<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Scores<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>|\u00a0<\/strong>Order of play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n World No. 2 Gauff fought back from a set and a break down to notch a 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 victory over Veronika Kudermetova and reach the Round of 16 for the fifth consecutive edition of this tournament.<\/p>\n Gauff survived hitting 14 double faults before taking the win in 2 hours and 32 minutes. After losing her first career meeting with Kudermetova, Gauff has now won their last three encounters on tour.<\/p>\n The 21-year-old Gauff is also is the youngest player to register 10 career match-wins at this tournament since Justine Henin in 2003.<\/p>\n Picking up wins again: <\/strong>After Gauff claimed her second Grand Slam singles title at Roland Garros in June, she suffered a two-match winless blip, losing her opening contests at Berlin and Wimbledon. In her first match this week, she needed a third-set tiebreak to squeak past former World No. 7 Danielle Collins.<\/p>\n Former World No. 9 Kudermetova also gave Gauff a stern test, but this time, the American dominated the third set after coming back from a one-set deficit. Gauff is now a win away from making her fourth Omnium Banque Nationale quarterfinal in her five tournament appearances.<\/p>\n Tale of the match: <\/strong>On Thursday, Gauff saw a 4-1 first-set lead slip away, and at 4-4, 40-15, the American lost five of the next eight points with double faults. Kudermetova took advantage, firing strong groundstroke winners from both wings as she wrapped up the set.<\/p>\n Three more Gauff double faults in the opening game of the second set gave Kudermetova a hefty set-and-a-break lead, but the typically gritty Gauff started to turn the match around as the set progressed. Gauff was able to pull back level, breaking for 3-3 with a forehand return winner.<\/p>\n Gauff was not out of the woods just yet, and she had to save break points in both her 4-4 and 5-5 service games, barely denying Kudermetova chances to serve for a straight-sets win. But the American did scrape to 6-5, at which point Kudermetova blinked, slamming a backhand smash into the net to give Gauff the second set.<\/p>\n After that, Gauff took charge, breaking Kudermetova at love for a 2-0 lead in the decider. Gauff eased home from there, and the match ended with Kudermetova’s first double fault of the day. Gauff finished the match with a 5-for-10 break point conversion rate.<\/p>\n More to come…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 1 seed Coco Gauff of the United States is firmly back in her winning ways, after she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,661,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-307710","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-text","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114950288722086666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307710","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=307710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}