Second-ranked defending champion Coco Gauff crashed out in her opening match at the WTA and ATP Cincinnati Open, falling to Yulia Putintseva 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 on Thursday. Third seed Aryna Sabalenka polished her opening-match record at the event by defeating Italy’s Elisabetta Cocciaretto 6-3, 6-4 while men’s second seed Alexander Zverev also advanced. I’m happy I got the win today.” …
Reigning US Open champion Coco Gauff was upset by Russia’s Diana Shnaider 6-4, 6-1 on Friday in a third-round match at the WTA Canadian Open. Shnaider, in her first WTA Masters level round of 16 match, needed only 70 minutes to dispatch Gauff and book a quarter-final against Russian sixth seed Liudmila Samsonova, who eliminated Belgium’s Elise Mertens 6-2, 6-4. …
