Former champ Gauff returns to Cincinnati quarters with win over Bronzetti

No. 2 seed Coco Gauff booked her place in her second Cincinnati Open quarterfinal with a 6-2, 6-4 defeat of Lucia Bronzetti in 1 hour and 19 minutes.

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Gauff had acquired a third-round walkover from Dayana Yastremska, that means it had been 4 days since her final aggressive match, a straight-sets win over Wang Xinyu within the second spherical. However the 2023 champion confirmed little signal of rust as she reached the final eight of a event for the primary time since claiming her second main title at Roland Garros.

Gauff advances to her fifth quarterfinal at WTA 1000 or Grand Slam stage in 2025 out of 10 tournaments, and improves to 2-0 general towards Bronzetti. She is going to subsequent face both No. 7 seed Jasmine Paolini or Barbora Krejcikova, who will face one another in a rematch of the 2024 Wimbledon last.

“For essentially the most half I performed aggressive,” Gauff mentioned in her on-court interview. “Perhaps bought slightly passive in a few of these video games. Nevertheless it’s robust — the balls are tremendous mild they usually fly, and she or he wasn’t giving me a lot tempo, so I used to be simply making an attempt to play managed but in addition aggressive.”

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