Gauff into Wuhan quarters, US Open finalist Pegula out

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Gauff into Wuhan quarters, US Open finalist Pegula out

Coco Gauff has advanced to the quarter-finals of the Wuhan Open with a 6-4 6-1 rout of 17th-ranked Marta Kostyuk.

It was the fourth-ranked Gauff’s eighth consecutive win on the WTA Tour’s ****** swing after winning the China Open last week, which moved her back into the top five in the rankings.

Gauff broke the Ukrainian’s serve five times — for the loss of one of her own — as she clinched a one-sided match in just over an hour on Thursday and extended her lead in their head-to-head series to 3-1.

“It was a pretty straightforward match,” Gauff said.

“Marta and I always have some good battles. Today I was able to get through in straight sets.”

Next for Gauff is 45th-ranked Magda Linette, who continued her impressive form this week by beating eighth-seeded Daria Kasatkina 6-2 6-3.

“We haven’t played since (the US Open in 2021),” Gauff said of Linette.

“… She’s been playing a great couple of matches here in Wuhan. I expect it to be a tough match.”

Gauff will be the only ********* left in the draw after third-ranked Jessica Pegula and tour rookie Hailey Baptiste both lost.

Pegula, the US Open finalist, had a tough afternoon against the 51st-ranked Wang Xinyu of China, who clinched a 6-3 7-5 win to make her first WTA 1000 quarter-final.

Wang had won their only previous meeting in three sets in the second round at Wimbledon earlier this year.

After her first win over a top 10 player in the previous round, Baptiste was routed 6-1 6-1 by Ekaterina Alexandrova.

The 22-year-old was broken six times by the No.33-ranked Russian who clinched her last-eight berth against Wang in 63 minutes.

Later, second-ranked Aryna Sabalenka looks to maintain her undefeated record at the Wuhan Open when she plays Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan in her third-round match.

A win for the Belarusian will allow her to regain top spot in the rankings from Poland’s Iga Swiatek, who is absent form the women’s tour ****** swing citing personal reasons and fatigue.

Sabalenka, the reigning US Open champion, is 13-0 in Wuhan after winning the title on her first appearance in 2018 and defending her crown in 2019 before the tournament took a five-year hiatus from the calendar due to COVID-19 travel restrictions.

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