Cori Gauff gets the better of Veronika Kudermetova 7-6(5) 6-2 in the 3rd round in Beijing on Thursday. Gauff will face Maria Sakkari or Xinyu Wang in the 4th round. The match lasted 1 hour and 47 minutes.
Coco added to her prize money $ 92,518 after conquering this match. She has already won $ 185,018 after this win. If she wins the next match, Gauff will add $ 216,982 to her earnings to get in total $ 402,000 in total.
Highlights Cori Gauff vs. Veronika Kudermetova China Open – Beijing
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the American scored 71 points vs. Kudermetova’s 62.
Gauff
Gauff was well focused in converting 63% of the break points that she procured (5/8).
Kudermetova
On the other side, the Russian was well focused in converting 50% of the break points that she procured points (3/6). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.
After this encounter, the head to head between Gauff and Kudermetova is 2-1 for Coco.
Draw and next match H2H: Cori Gauff vs. Maria Sakkari or Xinyu Wang – stats
Gauff will face either Maria Sakkari or Xinyu Wang in the 4th round. The head to head is 2-4 vs. Maria Sakkari and 1-0 vs. Xinyu Wang.
Live score progression and stats
Gauff had a racing start in this set after breaking Veronika Kudermetova in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Nonetheless, there was more to do for the American to win the set as Kudermetova managed to break back in the 5th (2-3), in the 7th (3-4) and in the 9th (5-4) game. Coco kept her focus to break Kudermetova in the 6th (4-2) and in the 10th (5-5) game before conquering the set (7-6).
The Russian lost the 10th game (5-5) when she had 3 consecutive game points when leading 40-0.
The American dropped 25 points on serve (25-25). on the other side of the net, the Russian conceded 21 points on serve (22-21).
Gauff had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Veronika Kudermetova in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. That break was enough for Coco to win the set (6-2) since there were no other breaks anymore.
Coco converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had 2 break points opportunities in the 3rd (2-0 15-40) and the 5th game (4-0 30-40). On the other side, Coco didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 41 points. Coco was the one to win the set after conquering 7 more points than Kudermetova (24-17). Gauff lost 7 points on serve (16-7). On the losing side, Kudermetova conceded 8 points on serve (10-8).
Tennis Scores in Beijing
- Cori GauffGauff – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (7-65 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Magda LinetteLinette (6-1 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Marta KostyukKostyuk (6-4 6-74 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Mirra AndreevaAndreeva (2-6 6-4 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Jessica PegulaPegula (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
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- Maria SakkariSakkari – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (2-1) – H2H details and stats
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (1-2) – H2H details and stats