{"id":48803,"date":"2025-10-11T05:54:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T09:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/pegula-and-gauff-advance-in-wuhan-surprise-osaka-eliminated\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T05:54:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T09:54:48","slug":"pegula-and-gauff-advance-in-wuhan-surprise-osaka-eliminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/pegula-and-gauff-advance-in-wuhan-surprise-osaka-eliminated\/","title":{"rendered":"Pegula and Gauff advance in Wuhan; Surprise: Osaka eliminated"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Pegula and Gauff Advance in the Wuhan Open; Osaka Surprised<\/h2>\n\nIn a day full of emotions at the Wuhan Open, Jessica Pegula overcame a tough match and Coco Gauff demonstrated her dominance, while Naomi Osaka suffered an unexpected defeat.\n\nPegula, seeded number six, defeated her compatriot Hailey Baptiste in a decisive tiebreak, securing her place in the third round with a score of 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (6). Pegula needed seven match points to secure the victory.\n\nIn the next stage, Pegula will face Ekaterina Alexandrova, ninth seed, who previously defeated Ann Li with a score of 7-6 (5), 6-2.\n\nOn the other hand, Coco Gauff, seeded number three, continued her advance with a resounding victory over Moyuka Uchijima, with a score of 6-1, 6-0 in just 51 minutes.\n\nThe surprise of the day was delivered by Linda Noskova, who eliminated Naomi Osaka, the eleventh seed, with a score of 7-6 (2), 6-3. The young Czech tennis player, 20 years old, comes from being runner-up at the China Open.\n\nNoskova will face Jaqueline Cristian or Elena Rybakina in the next round.\n\nLiudmila Samsonova, seeded number 16, managed a comeback to defeat Sofia Kenin, champion of the 2020 Australian Open, with a score of 3-6, 6-3, 6-1. In addition, Kate\u0159ina Siniakov\u00e1, coming from the qualifying phase, defeated Maya Joint with a result of 6-3, 6-1.\n\nIn the third round, Samsonova will face Aryna Sabalenka, US Open champion, who defeated Rebecca Sramkova with a score of 4-6, 6-3, 6-1.\n\nSabalenka, the world number one, has had an outstanding performance in Wuhan, with an impressive record of 18-0, including titles in 2018, 2019, and 2024.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I knew that after that little break&#8230; it wouldn&#8217;t be so easy to get my rhythm back. I&#8217;m very happy that in the second set I found my game and got into it, and I think I played very well. I&#8217;m very happy to be back. I&#8217;ve won many tournaments in China. It feels like home in this stadium, and I really hope I can go all the way.<\/p><cite>Aryna Sabalenka<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nSabalenka secured the victory in almost two hours, after breaking her opponent&#8217;s serve in the first game of the final set.\n\nKarolina Muchova was forced to retire from her match due to the heat and humidity, when she was losing 7-6 (1), 4-1 against Magdalena Frech.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pegula and Gauff Advance in the Wuhan Open; Osaka Surprised In a day full of emotions at the Wuhan Open, Jessica Pegula overcame a tough match and Coco Gauff demonstrated her dominance, while Naomi Osaka suffered an unexpected defeat. Pegula, seeded number six, defeated her compatriot Hailey Baptiste in a decisive tiebreak, securing her place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[816,4290,167,9537],"class_list":{"0":"post-48803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tennis","7":"tag-aryna-sabalenka","8":"tag-jessica-pegula","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-wuhan-open"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}