Coco Gauff produced an impressive comeback win to reach the Australian Open quarterfinals on Sunday, eventually downing Belinda Bencic 5-7 6-2 6-1.
The victory continued Gauff’s unbeaten start to 2025 and marked her ninth consecutive win to start the year – a milestone she has now reached three times in her career. Only Margaret Court, Steffi Graf, Monica Seles and Serena Williams have enjoyed this many perfect starts to their seasons. “It’s pretty crazy to be amongst the same stat line as legends and I’m very grateful,” the No. 3 seed said in her on-court interview after being told about those statistics.
Eventually, the Swiss player broke Gauff at 4-4 after two marathon rallies at deuce. Gauff then engineered a break point of her own in the next game. With Bencic just two points away from winning the set, the American’s athleticism allowed her to scamper all over the court and fire a backhand winner down the line to seal the break back. But she was unable to hold her serve and Bencic broke once more, before completing a 7-5 win in the first set in 62 minutes.
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