Coco Gauff overcame her young rival Mirra Andreeva in straight sets to progress to the semi-finals of the 2025 Italian Open.<\/p>\n
The American clinched a 6-4, 7-6(5) victory over seventh-ranked Andreeva in the last eight at the Foro Italico.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0world No 3 now holds a 4-0 record against Andreeva, and she has won seven consecutive sets against the 18-year-old Russian.<\/p>\n
In her on-court interview, Gauff<\/a>\u00a0said: \u201cI\u2019m feeling really good \u2014 and I feel I have a lot to improve on, too.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you\u2019re winning matches and you still feel like you have a whole ceiling to reach, it just makes you feel good.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve lost in the semis here a few times, so I\u2019m hoping to get through to the final stage. At the end, my defence, it was tough.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were both tight in the tiebreaker, it was whoever could make the last ball. Today some points weren\u2019t my best, but still managed to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n At the age of 21 years and 54 days, Gauff has become the fifth youngest woman to reach three semi-finals at the Italian Open in the Open Era, having also made the last four in 2021 and 2024.<\/p>\n Coco Gauff and Alex Eala set up exciting match in Rome as American reveals how partnership started<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Coco Gauff makes feelings clear on Iga Swiatek\u2019s hopes of winning the French Open<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Monica Seles is the youngest player to accomplish the feat, having reached her third Rome semi-final at the age of 18 years and 168 days.<\/p>\n Martina Hingis is the next youngest to achieve it (18 years and 231 days), while\u00a0Gabriela Sabatini (19 years and 3 days) and Chris Evert (20 years and 158 days) rank third and fourth.<\/p>\n Gauff is through to her 10th WTA 1000 semi-final, and there are only four players who have reached more before the age of 22. Former world No 1 Hingis featured in a staggering 33 WTA 1000 (Tier I) semi-finals before her 22nd birthday.<\/p>\n 1. Martina Hingis \u2013 33<\/p>\n 2. Maria Sharapova \u2013 15<\/p>\n =3. Venus Williams \u2013 11<\/p>\n =3. Serena Williams \u2013 11<\/p>\n 5. Coco Gauff \u2013 10<\/p>\n Gauff will face either world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka or eighth seed Zheng Qinwen in the last four in Rome.<\/p>\n Asked who she would prefer to play, Gauff said: \u201cI don\u2019t have a preference, to be honest. They\u2019re both tough players. It\u2019s going to be a tough match \u201cObviously I would maybe like to play Aryna because I just played her in Madrid, just to get some revenge (smiling). Obviously Qinwen is tough to play. I have no preference. It\u2019s going to be a tough, hard match either way.\u201d<\/p>\n The 2023 US Open champion added: \u201cI\u2019m really confident on clay. I think it\u2019s a surface that works well for my game.<\/p>\n \u201cI would love to get a big title on clay just because I do love it. Yeah, I\u2019m having a lot of confidence, but hoping to go even further.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0Emma Raducanu receives major boost as she makes key Wimbledon coach decision<\/a> The post Coco Gauff ranks fifth in two outstanding stats\u00a0after beating Mirra Andreeva in Rome<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Coco Gauff overcame her young rival Mirra Andreeva in straight sets to progress to the semi-finals of the 2025 Italian Open. The American clinched a 6-4, 7-6(5) victory over seventh-ranked Andreeva in the last eight at the Foro Italico. The\u00a0world No 3 now holds a 4-0 record against Andreeva, and she has won seven consecutive […]<\/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-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","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=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Coco Gauff News<\/h2>\n
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