Coco Gauff, 6th in the world, ended the course of Danish comeback Caroline Wozniacki 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, Sunday in the round of 16 of the US Open, and thus qualified for the quarters where she awaits defending champion Iga Swiatek. The Polish, world N.1, must play her 1/8th final against the Latvian Jelena Ostapenko (21st) at the end of the program on Sunday.
Gauff (19), eliminated last year in the quarterfinals at Flushing Meadows by the French Caroline Garcia, has already played the quarterfinals this year at Roland-Garros, where she was a finalist in 2022. Both times in Paris, she had was beaten by Swiatek.
On Sunday, after a slight ignition delay that caused him to lose his first game of service, Gauff found his stride and ultimately gave Wozniacki few chances in the first set. In the second, the 33-year-old Dane again had two break points on her opponent’s first service game, but this time the American saved them. It was only a postponement since Wozniacki, well helped by numerous unforced errors from Gauff (22 for the second set alone and 44 over the whole match), managed the break to lead 5-3 and equalize at one. set all over his service.
The third set was this time dominated by the youngest: the American took the lead by scoring the break to lead 3-1 then again for 5-1 and serve for the match.
Former world No.1, Wozniacki retired after being eliminated in the third round of the Australian Open in 2020. After three and a half years during which she married and gave birth to two children, she announced his return to the circuit last June. Falling to 623rd in the WTA, she received an invitation to play at Flushing Meadows where she spent three rounds with victories in particular against Petra Kvitova (11th) and Jennifer Brady, semi-finalist in New York in 2020 but down to 433rd in the world at the end of August.
