{"id":297498,"date":"2025-10-12T14:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/297498\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T14:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:40:11","slug":"coco-gauff-beats-jessica-pegula-to-win-wuhan-open-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/297498\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff beats Jessica Pegula to win Wuhan Open title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 12, 2025, 09:23 AM ET<\/p>\n<p>WUHAN, China &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"ca44c2b0-9dea-ab40-2541-b50a4442ff8e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3626\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coco Gauff<\/a> reeled off four straight games to beat <a data-player-guid=\"63f9c1e5-14bd-003f-c269-31543931ad1d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2113\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Pegula<\/a> 6-4, 7-5 and win the Wuhan Open on Sunday in an all-American final.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff, 21, won her second title of the year, having claimed the French Open on clay, and she now has 11 career titles.<\/p>\n<p>The third-ranked Gauff served to save the second set at 5-3 down. She held and then broke the sixth-ranked Pegula to love for 5-5.<\/p>\n<p>Pegula&#8217;s forehand volley at the net landed wide to give Gauff a first match point and, with Pegula on second serve, she clinched it with a forehand winner following a brief rally.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/46570136\/valentin-vacherot-beats-cousin-arthur-rinderknech-win-shanghai-masters\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/r1559052_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 31-year-old Pegula rallied to beat top-ranked <a data-player-guid=\"c91d133a-526a-ea8d-654c-7ef6915ad63b\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3038\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> in the semifinals. But this time she lost momentum and missed out on a 10th career title as Gauff became the second American to claim the Wuhan title after <a data-player-guid=\"bb2deb63-4fce-9e10-80e8-e16590139fb3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=403\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Venus Williams<\/a> in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>It was their seventh career meeting and first in a final. Pegula leads 4-3 overall against Gauff, with whom she has won several WTA doubles titles.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff improved to 11-3 in finals; Pegula dropped to 9-11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 12, 2025, 09:23 AM ET WUHAN, China &#8212; Coco Gauff reeled off four straight games to beat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":297499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-297498","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-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115361718556380374","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}