MONTREAL – Coco Gouf overcame 14 extra double faults to beat Russia’s Veronica Kudermetova 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 on the Nationwide Financial institution Open on Thursday.
Two days after surviving the 23 double faults and a tiebreaker within the third set with American Daniel Collins, prime seeded Gouf rallied from the set and collapsed with Kudermetova to achieve the sixteenth spherical.
World quantity two behind Aryna Sabalenka, Gauff has entered the week, shedding two consecutive matches since successful the French Open and falling into opening matches at Berlin and Wimbledon.
US McCartney Kessler confused Russia’s fourth seed Mira Andreva 7-6 (5), 6-4.
