Coco Gauff survived a major scare to come through her match against Iva Jovic and confirm her place in the quarter-finals of the Italian Open.<\/p>\n
Gauff faced match points in the second set against the talented American teenager, but she managed to fight back to win the match with a decider.<\/p>\n
The match eventually ended 5-7, 7-5, 6-2 as Gauff managed to just about hold on to her status at the Rome tournament, following Gauff\u2019s difficult match against Solana Sierra<\/a> too.<\/p>\n Speaking in her post-match interview, Gauff revealed:\u00a0\u201cI think I\u2019m just proud. Iva played really good tennis and the conditions today weren\u2019t easy. We had win, we had airplanes, we had phones ringing. Everything that was going on, but yeah I\u2019m really happy.\u201d<\/p>\n Gauff<\/a> said a mid-match team talk from her team helped her turn the match around against Jovic, when she looked on the cusp of exiting the competition.<\/p>\n \u201cThanks to my team, that pep talk definitely helped me mentally,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n In a later interview with Sky Sports\u2019 Gigi Salmon, Gauff added: \u201c\u201cIt was tough to find my rhythm. It was really windy today, I felt like I was missing a lot of balls. I\u2019m really happy with my mentality. I wasn\u2019t playing my best in some moments, but I was able to find a way.<\/p>\n \u201cI learned a lot over the years when it comes to those tough moments. It\u2019s just trying to relax and play tennis, but it\u2019s easier said than done.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously my previous round was mentally not good enough and today was a complete 180, so I think that shows I\u2019m able to be positive for the most part and I need to continue to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n Gauff will now play either Mirra Andreeva<\/a> or Elise Mertens in the quarter-finals. The American\u2019s draw has opened wide open since Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s<\/a> surprise defeat to Sorana Cirstea<\/a>.<\/p>\n If Gauff reaches the final four of the Italian Open<\/a> she will play the winner of Cirstea vs Jelena Ostapenko<\/a>, the latter of which beat Anna Kalinskaya<\/a> to reach the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n Gauff is yet to win the Italian Open in her career, but she did reach the final in Rome last year. The American was defeated by Jasmine Paolini<\/a> in the final.<\/p>\n The star has an excellent record at the Italian Open, however, having reached the semi-finals or later on three occasions throughout her career.<\/p>\n She holds a 76% win rate in Rome, having won 20 of her 26 matches so far at the Italian Open. With the draw opening up, there\u2019s every chance Gauff can go one further this year and lift the trophy.<\/p>\n It would be the perfect preparation for Roland Garros<\/a>, where the American is looking to defend the title she won last year in Paris.<\/p>\n The post Coco Gauff reveals what her coach did mid-match which helped her defeat Iva Jovic<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Coco Gauff survived a major scare to come through her match against Iva Jovic and confirm her place in the quarter-finals of the Italian Open. Gauff faced match points in the second set against the talented American teenager, but she managed to fight back to win the match with a decider. The match eventually ended […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}