Coco Gauff survives a wild one against Rybakina in Toronto
Coco Gauff edged out Elena Rybakina 6-4, 6-7 (8), 7-6 (3) on Wednesday evening. She’ll play the winner of the match between Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the No 6 seed, and Spaniard Sara Sorribes Tormo in the next round
Coco Gauff returns the ball during her National Bank Open tennis tournament first round match | Icon SMI / Panoramic
American Coco Gauff, the No 10 seed, edged out Kazakh Elena Rybakina 6-4, 6-7 (8), 7-6 (3) to move into the last 16 of the National Bank Open at the Aviva Centre in Toronto on Wednesday evening.
Gauff, ranked No 11, will face the winner of the match between Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the No 6 seed, and Spaniard Sara Sorribes Tormo next.
Gauff failed to convert four match points in the second-set tiebreak against the Wimbledon champion, and she was broken three times in a back and forth third set, before finally converting her fifth match point in the tiebreak to lock down the victory in two hours and 49 minutes.
Gauff improves to 29-14 on the season with her victory, and 14-8 on hard courts.
Ahead of her victory, the 18-year-old American won against qualifier Madison Brengle (6-1, 6-3).
Rybakina, ranked No 27, defeated Czech qualifier Marie Bouzkova (7-5, 6-7 (3), 6-1) in the previous round of the Canadian Open.
Toronto WTA 1000, other second-round results (Aviva Centre, hard, USD 2.527.250, most recent results first):
- Bianca Andreescu vs. Alize Cornet
- Belinda Bencic vs. Serena Williams
- Kaia Kanepi vs. Garbine Muguruza
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Ons Jabeur
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Leylah Fernandez
- Jil Teichmann vs. Anett Kontaveit
- Aryna Sabalenka vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Paula Badosa
- Simona Halep vs. Shuai Zhang
- Iga Swiatek vs. Ajla Tomljanovic: wednesday
- Jessica Pegula vs. Asia Muhammad: wednesday
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Alison Riske-Amritraj: wednesday
- Camila Giorgi beat Elise Mertens: 6-3, 7-5
- Karolina Pliskova (14) beat Amanda Anisimova: 6-1, 6-1
- Maria Sakkari (3) beat Sloane Stephens: 6-2, 4-6, 6-2
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