{"id":5571,"date":"2025-10-09T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2025-10-09T09:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:00:14","slug":"jessica-pegula-coco-gauff-advance-naomi-osaka-out-in-wuhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=5571","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Pegula, Coco Gauff advance, Naomi Osaka out in Wuhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2113\">Jessica Pegula<\/a> was twice broken while serving for the match in the third set but recovered to edge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3913\">Hailey Baptiste<\/a> in a tight tiebreaker Wednesday and advance at the Wuhan Open.<\/p>\n<p>Sixth-seeded Pegula beat her fellow American 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (6) on her seventh match point to reach the third round.<\/p>\n<p>Pegula, who lost in the China Open semifinals last week, will next play ninth-seeded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3182\">Ekaterina Alexandrova<\/a>, who beat American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3380\">Ann Li<\/a> 7-6 (5), 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>No. 3 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3626\">Coco Gauff<\/a>, coming off a semifinal loss to eventual champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3221\">Amanda Anisimova<\/a> at the China Open, breezed into the next round with a 6-1, 6-0 win over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=5734\">Moyuka Uchijima<\/a> in 51 minutes.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>No. 11 <a data-player-guid=\"4b888d90-ad54-6a80-8830-39cfcad473a1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2789\">Naomi Osaka<\/a> was upset by unseeded <a data-player-guid=\"d977d8a8-0fe9-3057-9ad6-efc456b0e397\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=6970\">Linda Noskova<\/a> 7-6 (2), 6-3. The 20-year-old Czech player was defeated by Anisimova in the final of the China Open on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Noskova, ranked 17th, will next face either <a data-player-guid=\"c6698549-e40a-4541-b09c-81d154a6b088\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2737\">Jaqueline Cristian<\/a> or <a data-player-guid=\"ae8f3eaf-8166-d650-d429-6200edef59fd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3126\">Elena Rybakina<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No. 16 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3840\">Liudmila Samsonova<\/a> rallied to beat 2020 Australian Open champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2746\">Sofia Kenin<\/a> 3-6, 6-3, 6-1, and qualifier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/player\/_\/id\/2248\/katerina-siniakova\">Kate\u0159ina Siniakov\u00e1<\/a> beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=14146\">Maya Joint<\/a> 6-3, 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>In the third round, Samsonova will face US Open champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3038\">Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>, who defeated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/player\/_\/id\/2738\/rebecca-sramkova\">Rebecca Sramkova<\/a> 4-6, 6-3, 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>The top-ranked Sabalenka has had an amazing run in Wuhan. Her record is 18-0 while winning titles in 2018, 2019 and 2024. She took a Greek holiday after her second consecutive win at Flushing Meadows and withdrew from last week&#8217;s China Open, another WTA 1000-level event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew after that little break &#8230; it will be not that easy to get back in my rhythm. I&#8217;m really glad that in the second set I found my game and stepped in, and I think I played really great,&#8221; Sabalenka said. &#8220;I&#8217;m super happy to be back. I&#8217;ve won a lot of tournaments in China. It feels like home in this stadium, and I really hope I can go all the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka broke her 68th-ranked opponent in the opening game of the final set and converted her second match point to win in almost two hours.<\/p>\n<p>After Sramkova broke Sabalenka twice to take the opening set, Sabalenka started her rally with a break in the fourth game of the second set and jumped to a 4-1 lead. She saved four break points in the seventh game.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"cc2cea69-f75c-09ea-f698-55b98e0a5b97\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3039\">Karolina Muchova<\/a> became the latest player to succumb to the heat and humidity, withdrawing from her match while trailing <a data-player-guid=\"208c6d48-6a2d-5e76-2b49-e27608d036c0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2672\">Magdalena Frech<\/a> 7-6 (1), 4-1.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press and PA contributed to this report.<\/em>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/46528795\/jessica-pegula-coco-gauff-advance-third-round-wuhan\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Pegula was twice broken while serving for the match in the third set but recovered to edge Hailey Baptiste in a tight tiebreaker Wednesday and advance at the Wuhan Open. Sixth-seeded Pegula beat her fellow American 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (6) on her seventh match point to reach the third round. Pegula, who lost in &#8230; <a title=\"Jessica Pegula, Coco Gauff advance, Naomi Osaka out in Wuhan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=5571\" aria-label=\"Read more about Jessica Pegula, Coco Gauff advance, Naomi Osaka out in Wuhan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5572,"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-5571","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\/2025\/10\/Jessica-Pegula-Coco-Gauff-advance-Naomi-Osaka-out-in-Wuhan.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571","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=5571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5573,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions\/5573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}