Coco Gauff booked her place in the quarter-finals of the 2025 Italian Open with a dominant victory against Emma Raducanu.<\/p>\n
The world No 3 dismantled 49th-ranked\u00a0Raducanu<\/a> 6-1, 6-2 on the Grand Stand Arena in the last 16 at the Foro Italico.<\/p>\n In a clash of two former US Open champions, it was one-way traffic from start to finish as Gauff broke twice in each set and did not drop her own serve.<\/p>\n Gauff<\/a>\u00a0saved three break points, which came in separate games: at 2-0 in the first set; at 5-1 in the first set; and at 3-2 in the second set.<\/p>\n The American star now holds a 2-0 record against Raducanu, having won the duo\u2019s first encounter in straight sets at the 2023 Australian Open.<\/p>\n The 21-year-old was already ensured of returning to her career-high ranking of world No 2 when the WTA Rankings update after her rivals Iga Swiatek and Jessica Pegula both exited Rome at the third round stage.<\/p>\n Gauff\u2019s latest win has strengthened her position, though, as she has extended her lead over third-placed Pegula to 175 points in the live rankings.<\/p>\n She is now 580 points clear of Swiatek, who has dropped to fourth in the live standings as she failed to defend the 1,000 points she earned for winning the 2024 Italian Open.<\/p>\n Emma Raducanu clears air on opponent trying to \u2018throw her off\u2019 at the Italian Open<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Chris Evert rates Iga Swiatek\u2019s French Open chances as she names four favourites<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Gauff is the first American woman to reach their third quarter-final in Rome since Venus Williams in 2006.<\/p>\n The 2023 US Open winner is chasing her maiden title at the Foro Italico, having reached the semi-finals in 2021 and 2024.<\/p>\n Raducanu, meanwhile, is up seven places in the live rankings \u2014 from 49th to 42nd \u2014 with the 120 points she gained for her three wins in Rome.<\/p>\n The 22-year-old Brit\u2019s fourth round exit means, however, that she has narrowly missed the chance to claim the British No 1 spot from Katie Boulter.<\/p>\n Victory over Gauff would have seen Raducanu climb above Boulter, who currently sits 40th on the live list.\u00a0Raducanu peaked at 10th in the world in July 2022, the year after her stunning US Open victory.<\/p>\n Gauff will face either world No 7 Mirra Andreeva or 23rd-ranked Clara Tauson in the last eight in Rome.<\/p>\n Raducanu is set to compete at the French Open for only the second time and the first time since 2022.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0Emma Raducanu wins humorous WTA award \u2013 \u2018Oops!\u2026 she did it again!\u2019<\/a> The post Coco Gauff consolidates key rankings breakthrough with Emma Raducanu Italian Open hammering<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Coco Gauff booked her place in the quarter-finals of the 2025 Italian Open with a dominant victory against Emma Raducanu. The world No 3 dismantled 49th-ranked\u00a0Raducanu 6-1, 6-2 on the Grand Stand Arena in the last 16 at the Foro Italico. In a clash of two former US Open champions, it was one-way traffic from […]<\/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-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","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=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}WTA Tour News<\/h2>\n
What next for Coco Gauff?<\/h4>\n
What next for Emma Raducanu?<\/h4>\n
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