Coco Goufff a little over a week ago in an impressive style defeated Iga Świątek in Madrid and advanced to the finals. Aryna Sabalenka turned out to be better in it. For the 21-year-old, the previous tournament was very successful and allowed her to return on the podium of the WTA ranking. However, she started the struggle in Rome with a serious false start and in the meeting with 18-year-old Victoria Mboko.
Falstart Gauff in Rome. She gave the set to the 18-year-old
The beginning of the first batch did not herald a surprise at all. Gaufff calmly won the first two games and nothing announced the problems. At that time, however, Mboko broke, and Gafff's game began to fall apart. The American had the low effectiveness of the first website, and in the whole set she added five double errors. The rival carefully used her weakness, won five games in a row and had a set ball up. Gauffer managed to defend herself and broke for the second time. There was no spectacular return, however, because in the next game Mboko won the second set ball and this time she did not waste it. She won the whole set 6: 3 and the sensation became a fact.
The defeat in the first installment worked the Gauff motivating and immediately went to work. She quickly took the lead 3: 0, then unexpectedly lost to her own pass and to zero. The American returned immediately and also responded to the breakthrough to give the point after a while. When at 4: 2 it seemed that MBOKO could catch contact, the third rocket of the world immediately struck her. She won the next two games, the whole set 6: 2 and led to a draw.
Gaufff reversed the fate of the match. Now waiting for Linette
The 18-year-old from Canada did not say the last word and she won the game opening the decisive third installment. However, she quickly lost the lead. It is true that she impressed with strong, offensive outlets, but she also made much more mistakes. The third game ended with a double service error and allowed Gauff to go 2: 1. Later, she was not able to oppose and easily reflected the next points. In the end she put herself in the seventh game, but it didn't do much. Although she led 40:15, she was caught up, and Gauff broke and ended the whole meeting.
Despite the problems of Gauff after 105 minutes she won 2: 6, 6: 2, 6: 1 and advanced to the third round. And in it he will meet our Magda Linette. The Polish woman in an earlier Friday meeting dealt with Maria Sakkari 1: 6, 6: 4, 6: 1.