Berlin 5 Aug : Coco Gauff was too fast with her return match against Naomi Osaka in the second round of the Silicon Valley Classic in San Jose and came away with an victory of 6-4, 6-4.Gauff, the world’s number 11 and San Jose tournament’s sixth seed Gauff, who is the sixth seed in San Jose tournament, had 12 break points in the game in the game on Thursday and only allowing one break point to Osaka despite eight double faults according to DPA.
In the end, Gauff scored 41 percent (29-of-71) of the points from Osaka’s serve, and she turned 85 percent (28-of-33) of her successful first serves into points.
In the earlier match in the daytime in an epic upset the top seed Maria Sakkari was eliminated in straight sets, 6-1 7-6 by American Shelby Rogers.
The world’s number three was struggling with her serve throughout, completing only 45 percent of her first serves and only winning 52 percent (12-of-23) of those points.
Sixth-ranked world Aryna Sabalenka took three sets to beat unseeded American Carolina Dolehide 5-7, 6-1, 7-5.Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova was less of a problem beating Claire Liu 6-2, 7-5 to set up a thrilling game with Ons Jabeur in the quarterfinals.
In the meantime, in Washington at the Citi Open, Emma Raducanu played in the longest two-set match of the WTA season, beating Camila Osorio 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-4) in two hours and 49 minutes.
Both women produced at least 12 break points, with four total breaks each time the young British star struggled with hand blisters.
Raducanu will face Liudmila Samsonova, after the Russian defeated Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovich, 4-6, 6-3 6-1.
In the final game of the day the Chinese’s Xiyu Wang got the better of Croatia’s Donna Vekic 4-6, 7-5 6-1 and she will face the winner of Tereza Martincova and Victoria Azarenka in the quarter-final.
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