Karolina Muchova didn’t mind telling the truth to everyone when asked if there was something in Coco Gauff’s game that was not suiting her as the Czech acknowledged that there probably was and that she played one of her worst Beijing matches on Sunday.
Yesterday, the 28-year-old was bidding to land her maiden WTA 1000 title. And since she collected a couple of really dominant wins and then also managed to upset Aryna Sabalenka and beat Zheng Qinwen, she had every reason to enter the Beijing final fully confident.
But what was supposed to be Muchova’s big day, ended in disaster after Gauff absolutely crushed her with a 6-1 6-3 scoreline. Although the Czech was out for 10 months due to wrist surgery and didn’t play again until June, it didn’t take her long to rediscover her game and find her groove. But one thing continued – her struggles against the American tennis star.
During the China Open final, the current world No. 8 was broken a total of five times.
“I think it was my I don’t want to say worst, but for sure not the best. Yeah, maybe it was actually one of the worst matches that I played here. I think I was playing the other matches pretty solid. I served better. I wasn’t doing that many mistakes. Of course, she pushed me and made me do those errors. But yeah, I…
