World number 3 Coco Gauff qualified for the quarterfinals on Sunday, even though she lost her first set since November, against former world number 4 Belinda Bencic (294th).
Winner of the US Open in 2023, the 20-year-old American won 5-7, 6-2, 6-1 against the Swiss, Olympic champion in 2021 in Tokyo. Irregular in service and broken at 5-5 in the first set, Gauff then took the upper hand in heat above 30°C. Coco Gauff had not lost a single set since the title match of the WTA Finals at the beginning of November, won against the Chinese Qinwen Zheng (5th).
The 3rd in the world will face Paula Badosa (12th) in the quarter-finals, who eliminated the Serbian Olga Danilovic (55th) on Sunday in two sets: 6-1, 7-6 (7/2). She joins on the threshold of the last four the double title holder Aryna Sabalenka (1st), qualified earlier in the day and opposed in the quarters to the Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (32nd), winner 7-6 (7/0), 6-0 from Croatian Donna Vekic (19th).
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