{"id":20060,"date":"2026-02-10T14:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=20060"},"modified":"2026-02-10T14:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:26:33","slug":"cocciaretto-upsets-gauff-in-doha-into-wta-1000-last-16-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=20060","title":{"rendered":"Cocciaretto upsets Gauff in Doha; into WTA 1000 last 16 for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-widget=\"article-table\/article-table\">\n                        Lucky loser Elisabetta Cocciaretto scored the third Top 10 win of her career &#8212; and first outside a Grand Slam &#8212; with a 6-4, 6-2 upset of No. 4 seed Coco Gauff in the Qatar TotalEnergies Open second round. The Italian advances to the last 16 of a WTA 1000 event for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Doha: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/tournaments\/doha\/scores\"><em>Scores<\/em><\/a><em> | <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/tournaments\/doha\/draws\"><em>Draws<\/em><\/a><em> | <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/tournaments\/doha\/order-of-play\"><em>Order of play<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cocciaretto&#8217;s previous Top 10 wins had come over Petra Kvitova at Roland Garros 2023 and Jessica Pegula at Wimbledon 2025, but she had not won a set from Gauff in three previous professional meetings. However, she did have a junior win over the American to draw on, having defeated her 2-6, 6-2, 6-2 at the Australian Open in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The result continues Cocciaretto&#8217;s stellar season so far &#8212; one in which she has used the qualifying rounds as a springboard to success. In January, she captured her second WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz title as a qualifier in Hobart. This week, she fell in the final round of qualifying to Varvara Gracheva, but entered the main draw as a lucky loser following McCartney Kessler&#8217;s withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old will next face another American, Ann Li, with a maiden WTA 1000 quarterfinal at stake for both players.<\/p>\n<p><em>More to come&#8230;<\/em>\n                    <\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/news\/4447733\/cocciaretto-upsets-gauff-in-doha-into-wta-1000-last-16-for-first-time\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucky loser Elisabetta Cocciaretto scored the third Top 10 win of her career &#8212; and first outside a Grand Slam &#8212; with a 6-4, 6-2 upset of No. 4 seed Coco Gauff in the Qatar TotalEnergies Open second round. The Italian advances to the last 16 of a WTA 1000 event for the first time. &#8230; <a title=\"Cocciaretto upsets Gauff in Doha; into WTA 1000 last 16 for first time\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=20060\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cocciaretto upsets Gauff in Doha; into WTA 1000 last 16 for first time\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cocciaretto-upsets-Gauff-in-Doha-into-WTA-1000-last-16-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20062,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20060\/revisions\/20062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}