By Richard Pagliaro | Sunday, October 12, 2025
Wuhan Open CVG
The queen of the fruit salad celebrated in another final.
Chinese fans nicknamed Coco Gauff ”Queen of Fruit Salad ”for her habit of gathering in the fruit salad during replacement.
Showing a fierce appetite for the war, Gauff strengthened her status as the queen of closure.
In an all-American final, Gauff charged during the last four games, leaving her ex-partner in doubles Jessica Pegula 6-4, 7-5 in today’s exciting final Wuhan Open.
Is the third championship of Gauff’s WTA 1000 career and she won it without falling a set in five tour wins.
In fact, the 25 games that Gauff allowed along the way to the title are the least that a champion has been submitted to the open history of Wuhan.
“I would like to congratulate Jess for an extraordinary tour,” said Guff, who is the first American to win Wuhan since legend Venus Williams in 2015. “When I came to the tour you were one of the first people who was good for me and welcome me open wings …
“So thank you. It’s an honor to share the court with you.”
Third Rangf Gauff captured her 11th career championship by setting up her record in the court finals to a perfect 9-0. In general, Gauff, who was resurrected in Asia after a disappointing US Open loss to Naomi Osaka last month, owns a record 11-3 in his career.
The sixth Pigul with the sixth seed had won four of the six preliminary meetings against Guff and put himself in a position to force one -third today before a adrenalize gafff showed strong closing shocks. Pegula, who overthrew the world No.1 Aryna Sabalenka in an inspired semifinal return, had won four three places before finishing gas below the stretch today.
“I want to say congratulations to Coco and her team,” Pegula said. “Amazing work. You have played amazing tennis this week. I know we will see each other within two weeks (in the WTA final). Next to play you as a friend and American friends, yes, congress.”
This first final between the two friends presented deep, deep strikes of Pegula against speed, judicial crafts and the variety of Gufula’s eye. Often by rejecting short slice from both sides to bring Pegula forward, Gauff hit 11 more-24 winners in 13 and resisted eight double mistakes in one-hour triumph, 42-minute.
Explacing the blocks on purpose, Gauff won the first 10 points to go out on 2-0.
In the middle of the opening group, Pegula found the range and its rhythm. Raising up and running it forward, Pegula split into eight out of nine points supporting a break with a love love at the level after eight matches.
A bold gaffy was harshly hanging through a 10-point game that holds for 5-4. Gauff threw her two -handed breaking for a lead with a set.
Guff’s second service was shaky in the early stages of the second group. Pegula used six double mistakes, charging 3-0 lead.
By setting its variety, Gauff was mixing in backward and raw slices and some shots with drop as well.
The reign champion Roland Garros provoked a pair of backward mistakes as she returned to the second set after six games.
Pegula showed her good feeling, running down a falling blow and staring at a perfect backward response to break back for a 4-3 lead. That was the fifth break in the first seven games of the set.
When Pegula held at 30 years old, she extended her lead to 5-3 and was four points from a fifth consecutive group.
21-year-old Gauff refused to be cracked.
Grand Slam’s double sample withdrew 10 points to regain control.
One of the longest points of this finale ended with gafff bowing to its two-wing crossoure to climb 40-15. When Pegula painted a deep preface, Gauff Edged before 6-5.
The WTA final champion speed proved important in the last match.
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Stringing Side-to-Side Gauff ran down a brilliant Pegula volleyball and forced her ex-partner in pairs to play more volleyball. Pegula pushed him away from volleyball, giving Guff a championship point in 30-40.
Returning a short first return to attract the sixth seed, Gauff ceased a passing money and threw her arms to the sky closing her ninth championship of her hard career in one hour, 42 minutes.
