Sunday, October 12, 2025

WTA Wuhan — Jessica Pegula vs Coco Gauff

🇺🇸 Jessica Pegula (#6, right; 170 cm)

2025: 51–20 overall | 35–11 on hard 📈
Beijing SF → Wuhan: d. Baptiste, Alexandrova, Siniakova, Sabalenka (from a set down) ✅
Notes: 🔁 Eight straight 3-setters, six with tiebreaks • 🧱 Elite resilience vs No.1s (beat Sabalenka) • 🔋 Heavy match load in China (12 matches in <4 weeks).

🇺🇸 Coco Gauff (#3, right; 176 cm)

2025: 46–14 overall | 28–9 on hard 📈
Beijing SF → Wuhan: d. Uchijima, Zhang, Siegemund, Paolini (11 consecutive breaks in the match) ✅
Notes: 🏆 10–3 in tour finals, 8–0 on hard • 🔁 Came to China with no 2025 hard SFs, now back-to-back deep runs • 💪 Mental block vs Paolini addressed.

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🇫🇷 Arthur Rinderknech (#54, right; 196 cm)

2025: 31–31 overall | 14–14 on hard
Shanghai route: d. Medjedovic (ret), Michelsen, Zverev, Lehecka, Auger-Aliassime, Medvedev ✅
Notes: Career-best Masters run; surge since grass swing; set to crack the top-30. First Frenchman in a Masters final since Humbert (Paris ’24). Big-serve/first-strike patterns holding up in pressure moments.

🇲🇨 Valentin Vacherot (#204, right; 193 cm)

2025: 45–22 overall | 17–9 on hard
Shanghai route: Alt into qualies → qualified; d. Djere, Bublik, Machac, Griekspoor, Rune, Djokovic ✅
Notes: Cinderella run from qualifying; only one prior ATP MD win before this event. On the brink of the top-50. Confidence sky-high after taking out multiple top names (Djokovic, Rune). Former college contemporary of Rinderknech—familiarity factor.

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