Coco Gauff became the second player to achieve an unusual feat as she progressed to the quarter-finals of the 2025 Madrid Open.<\/p>\n
The world No 4 secured a convincing 6-4, 6-2 victory against 42nd-ranked Belinda Bencic in the last 16 of the WTA 1000 tournament.<\/p>\n
Gauff<\/a>\u00a0broke Bencic twice in each set and lost serve only once as she avenged her defeat to the 28-year-old Swiss in Indian Wells last month. She now leads her head-to-head series with Bencic 3-2.<\/p>\n The American posted dominant serving numbers as she won 85% of points behind her first serve, 65% on her second, and faced just a single break point in her nine service games.<\/p>\n Shortly after Gauff sealed her win, the Madrid Open was affected by the widespread power outages in Spain and Portugal. Her on-court interview was cut short when she was mid-sentence as the microphone lost power.<\/p>\n The exact moment Spain, Portugal and other parts of Europe lost power. pic.twitter.com\/B0O4oQDHfh<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) April 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The 21-year-old\u2019s victory saw her reach the last eight of the Madrid Open for the first time in what is her fifth appearance in the Spanish capital.<\/p>\n The 2023 US Open winner has now featured in the quarter-finals at nine of the 10 WTA 1000 tournaments, with the Miami Open the only event in this category at which she is yet to reach the last eight.<\/p>\n Gauff is only the second player to reach the quarter-finals of the Madrid Open women\u2019s singles event after losing the first set in their opening match 0-6.<\/p>\n WATCH: Madrid Open plunged into darkness as national power outage disrupts event<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Aryna Sabalenka becomes third active WTA player to win 10 matches against a single opponent<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Gauff, who received a first round bye as the fourth seed, prevailed 0-6, 6-2, 7-5 in her second round contest with Dayana Yastremska.<\/p>\n Bethanie Mattek-Sands is the other woman to accomplish this, having beaten Ana Ivanovic 0-6, 6-4, 6-4 in her first round contest at the 2011 Madrid Open before going on to reach the last eight.<\/p>\n Gauff will face world No 7 Mirra Andreeva in the last eight in Madrid after the 17-year-old Russian downed world No 99 Yuliia Starodubtseva 6-1, 6-4 in the fourth round.<\/p>\n Andreeva, who will turn 18 on Tuesday, became the first player to win 10 matches at a single WTA 1000 event before their 18th birthday since the category of tournament was introduced in 2009. She reached the quarter-finals in Madrid last year and the fourth round in 2023.<\/p>\n Gauff holds a 2-0 record against Andreeva, with the pair\u2019s previous encounters coming in 2023 at Roland Garros and the US Open.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0Coco Gauff joins Maria Sharapova and 3 other other WTA players in remarkable stat<\/a> The post Coco Gauff accomplishes rare feat as she sets Mirra Andreeva Madrid Open showdown<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Coco Gauff became the second player to achieve an unusual feat as she progressed to the quarter-finals of the 2025 Madrid Open. The world No 4 secured a convincing 6-4, 6-2 victory against 42nd-ranked Belinda Bencic in the last 16 of the WTA 1000 tournament. Gauff\u00a0broke Bencic twice in each set and lost serve only […]<\/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-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","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=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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