{"id":486376,"date":"2024-08-16T04:20:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T08:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486376"},"modified":"2024-08-16T02:46:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T06:46:14","slug":"coco-gauff-suffers-shocking-defeat-in-cincinnati-opener","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/coco-gauff-suffers-shocking-defeat-in-cincinnati-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff suffers shocking defeat in Cincinnati opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coco Gauff had hoped to regain her form at the Cincinnati Open following a series of defeats by lower-ranked players, but her title defense came to an abrupt end after a stunning loss in her opener.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Putintseva d. Coco Gauff 6-4 2-6 6-4 in Cincinnati<\/p>\n<p>Down 2-4 in the 3rd set<\/p>\n<p>Yulia knocks out the defending champion<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s now beaten both the world #1 and #2 this year<\/p>\n<p>\u27053rd top 10 win of 2024<br \/>\n\u2705Won 10 of last 11 matches<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s turning this into an unforgettable season.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\uddff\ud83e\ude75 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/awWFGQlhpT\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/awWFGQlhpT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1824189188545384622?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old American, who is based in Florida, was defeated 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 by Kazakhstan&#8217;s Yulia Putintseva, the world number 34, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>This loss adds to Gauff&#8217;s recent struggles, as she arrived in Cincinnati with four tour-level defeats to unfancied players dating back to the French Open in June. The defeat also hampers her preparations for the upcoming U.S. Open, where she will aim to defend her title from August 26 to September 8.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff made 50 unforced errors during the match, including nine double faults, and acknowledged that it was far from her best performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coco Gauff had hoped to regain her form at the Cincinnati Open following a series of defeats by lower-ranked players, but her title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":486377,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20962,17724],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[20963,19584],"acf":{"announce":"The American was defeated by Kazakhstan's Yulia Putintseva 6-4, 2-6, 6-4","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486378,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486376\/revisions\/486378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486376"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486376"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}