By Richard Pagliaro | Monday, October 13, 2025Photo credit: Wuhan Open CVG
Coco Gauff’s resounding run to the Wuhan Open title was greater than her eleventh singles championship.
The third-ranked Gauff believes it’s a springboard for achievement in Riyadh.
In an all-American last, Gauff received the ultimate 4 video games in a row defeating former doubles associate Jessica Pegula, 6-4, 7-5, in Sunday’s Wuhan Open last. Gauff raised her report in hard-court finals to an ideal 9-0.
The 2-time Grand Slam champion is the primary lady to win 9 consecutive hard-court finals since Serena Williams received 12 in a row from 2013 to 2015.
It’s Gauff’s first title since she rallied previous world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka to win Roland Garros final June and the very fact she permitted simply 25 video games en path to her third WTA 1000 crown in Wuhan fuels her with confidence forward of her WTA Finals championship protection in Riyadh subsequent month.
“This positively offers me much more confidence going into the WTA Finals, after the way in which the mid-part of the season went for me, particularly in New York,” Gauff informed WTA.com.
“It offers me loads of confidence to attempt to defend that title.
“Clearly, profitable it final 12 months, I understand how robust it’s to do, so I’m simply going to take it match by match and hopefully I can find yourself with the trophy.”
The WTA Finals, set for November 1-Eighth, options 4 Individuals in Gauff, China Open champion Amanda Anisimova, Pegula and Australian Open champion Madison Keys.
World No. 3 Gauff presently leads the fourth-ranked Anisimova by 1,949 rating factors because the pair each pursue the American year-end prime spot.
A 12 months in the past, Gauff out-dueled Olympic gold-medal champion Zheng Qinwen within the WTA Finals championship match, 3–6, 6–4, 7–6(2), gathering a WTA-record champion’s verify of $4.805 million, defeating the world No. 1 Sabalenka and No. 2 Iga Swiatek alongside the way in which.
Although Gauff’s complete courtroom protection and talent shifting spins has earned her success on clay courts, the Delray Seaside-born baseliner says she’s most at house on laborious courts.
“I positively assume it’s the floor I’m most true to,” Gauff stated. “Rising up, I favored the sureness of bounces and the sureness of figuring out once I’m going to cease and once I’m going to go.
“Lots of people assume [it’s] clay. I don’t know my favourite floor. I really feel prefer it’s nonetheless going to be laborious courtroom for me.”
