Cori Gauff breezes past Rebeka Masarova 6-1 6-1 in the final in Auckland on Sunday after playing a fantastic match to win her 3rd career title, the 1st of this season. The match lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes. This is the first time that the American conquered this tournament. Her most significant achievement in this tournament so far was reaching the 2nd round. Here you can see when her history at this event.
Highlights Cori Gauff vs. Rebeka Masarova ASB Classic – Auckland
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Coco scored 69 points vs. Rebeka’s 46.
Gauff
The American was well focused in converting 50% of the break points that she conquered (5/10).
Masarova
On the other side, Masarova wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/10). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Gauff and Masarova is 1-0 for Coco.
This was the 3rd career title for Gauff. She won the previous title in Romagna Open. (see list of titles and finals). The Spaniard lost the opportunity to win her title at the first attempt. (see list of titles and finals)
Live score progression and stats
The American was too strong to drop barely 1 game before breaking Masarova 2 times and conquer the set 6-1.
An important stage of this set was when Coco won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set so as to bring the scoreline from 0-0 to 6-1.
Coco conceded 9 points on serve (13-9). On the other side, the Spaniard conceded 4 points on serve (2-4).
Gauff had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Rebeka Masarova in the 1st game (1-0). The American managed to strengthen her lead after breaking the Spaniard in the 5th (4-1) and in the 7th (6-1) game before winning the set.
Rebeka had no answers in the last 4 games of the set when the score went from 2-1 to 6-1.
They played 59 points. Gauff was the one to win the set after conquering 13 more points than the Spaniard (36-23). Gauff conceded 10 points on serve (19-10). In addition, on the other side, Rebeka conceded 17 points on serve (13-17).