Coco Gauff and Karolina Muchova will contest the final of the Cincinnati Open on Sunday. Both players upset the top two seeds in three sets in their respective semi-finals. Gauff won against world no. 1 Iga Swiatek while Muchova beat world no.
2 Aryna Sabalenka.In the first semi-final Gauff posted a 7-6(2), 3-6, 6-4 win over her higher-ranked opponent. Swiatek had multiple chances across the match but Gauff’s serve never let her down which allowed her to keep her opponent at bay.
But on the other hand, Swiatek’s erratic play-making finally caught up to her and Gauff was able to exploit it thoroughly.Gauff won 73% of her first-serve points and saved all but four of the 14 break points she faced.
In comparison, while Swiatek did win a better margin of second-serve points as compared to Gauff’s – 65% to the latter’s 46%, the lack of conversion of break points did hurt her the most alongside the vast number of unforced errors she hit.For the match, Swiatek finished with nine more winners than her opponent’s 18 but she also had nine more unforced errors than the latter’s 37.Meanwhile, this was also the first time in their eight total meetings that Gauff had managed to pip…
