
Cori Gauff hustles Leylah Annie Fernandez 6-4 6-2 in the 3rd round in Melbourne on Friday. Gauff will square off with Belinda Bencic in the 4th round. The match lasted 1 hour and 16 minutes. Her best achievement in this event was reaching the semifinal in 2024. Here you can see her history at this event.
Gauff added to her prize money $ 130,000 after winning this match. She has already won $ 420,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, Gauff will add $ 245,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 665,000 in total.
Highlights Cori Gauff vs. Leylah Annie Fernandez Australian Open – Melbourne
Gauff’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Gauff scored 61 points vs. Fernandez’s 42.
Gauff
The American served pretty well to win 89% of the points (24/27) behind her first serve, and she won 56% points (10/18) on her second serve. Coco won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points after she converted only 40% (4/10) of the procured opportunities.
Fernandez
On the other side, Leylah was exceptional in converting the only break point that she converted. Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Gauff and Fernandez is 2-0 for Coco.
Draw and next match H2H: Cori Gauff vs. Belinda Bencic – stats
Gauff will come up against Bencic in the 4th round.
This will be the 3rd time that Cori Gauff and Belinda Bencic fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Gauff and Bencic (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Gauff won 6-1 6-2 in the quarter in Washington back in 2023.
Live score progression and stats
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Gauff conquered in the 7th game (4-3) prior to ultimately conquering the set (6-4).
Coco wasted a good opportunity to break Fernandez in the 3rd game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
The American converted 14% of her break points (1/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40), the 7th (3-3 30-40 and 40-A), the 9th (5-3 30-40) and the 11th game (6-3 30-40). On the other side, Coco didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 67 points. The American conquered the set after winning 9 points more than Leylah (38-29). Gauff surrendered 5 points on serve (21-5). on the other side of the net, Fernandez conceded 17 points on serve (24-17).
Gauff had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Leylah Annie Fernandez in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. However, that was not enough for the American to win the set as Fernandez managed to break back in the 4th (1-3) game. Coco kept her cool to break Fernandez in the 5th (4-1) game before winning the set (6-2).
Gauff converted 66% of her break points (2/3). She had 3 break points opportunities in the 3rd (2-0 0-40) and the 5th game (3-1 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Leylah was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 4th game (0-3 15-40).
They played 36 points. The American was the one to win the set after conquering 10 more points than the Canadian (23-13). The American lost 6 points on serve (13-6). on the other side of the net, the Canadian conceded 10 points on serve (7-10).
Tennis Scores at the Australian Open
- Paula BadosaBadosa – Marta KostyukKostyuk (6-4 4-6 6-3)
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Clara TausonTauson (7-65 6-4)
- Olga DanilovicDanilovic – Jessica PegulaPegula (7-63 6-1)
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (6-1 6-2)
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Magdalena FrechFrech (6-2 1-6 6-2)
- Belinda BencicBencic – Naomi OsakaOsaka (7-63 ret.)
- Cori GauffGauff – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (6-4 6-2)
- Donna VekicVekic – Diana ShnaiderShnaider (7-64 6-73 7-5)
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