Coco Gauff celebrates her victory over Elina Svitolina of Ukraine in the third round 5 of the US Open 2024. (Photo by Robert Prange / Getty Images)
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Coco Gauff is one more step from the defense of its US Open title. However, she received a little awakening to lose the first set of her third round match with Elina Svitolina on Friday.
By its own admission, the loss of this first set made GAUFF more aggressive. This approach, with the crowd of the Arthur Ashe stadium encouraging him, fueled Gauff to win the following two sets decisively, which led to a 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory.
“I think I tried to be more aggressive, especially from my forehand and to make fewer mistakes on the reverse,” said Gauff in his post-match interview. “I lacked a lot of backhand in the net, so I was just trying to make fewer mistakes. She played well. She played aggressive. She hit her places and I think the difference was just that me being more aggressive, especially in service.”
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The central point of the match may have been in the second set when Gauff broke out for an advance of 4-2. Feeling that the momentum was swung, Gauff beckoned by the crowd of making more noise. From there, she frequently mastered Svitolina with her service.
Although Svitolina seems to fight against an injury to the foot, Gauff's turnaround after losing this first set was impressive.
The return to Queens seems to have revitalized Gauff, who had trouble in his last tournaments leading to the US Open. She lost before reaching the quarterfinals in Wimbledon and fell in the third round at the Paris Olympic Games, demonstrating her frustration by argue with the chair referee About a call. The most shocking of all was A defeat in the first round At the Cincinnati open to Yulia Putinteva.
During last week's media day at the US Open, Gauff provided that she would play better by being able to train more than she had done for previous tournaments. However, she also had more time to train because of her first outings.
“The main objective was to try to be as ready as possible here, which I have the impression that it was a disguised blessing that I lost so early, because I was able to actually train, what I could not,” said Gauff, via tennis.com. “I do my best results when I go out of a training block.”
The seeded n ° 3 goes to the fourth round, where she will play on Sunday in her American colleague n ° 13 American. Gauff obtains a revenge match against Navarro, who defeated it in Wimbledon In the fourth round earlier this summer.
