Coco Gauff rolled to a 6-2, 6-0 victory over Varvara Gracheva to start her US Open title defense Monday.
Gauff needed just over an hour, looking more like the player who won her first major title last year at age 19 than the one who had dropped her last two matches before coming to New York., the Olympic gold medalist in women's tennis, stayed in the tournament by rallying for a 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 victory over
Zheng began the Grand Slam season by reaching the final of the Australian Open. She had a difficult assignment to start the year's final major in Anisimova, an American who earlier this month reached the final of a hard-court warmup tournament in Montreal and returned to the top 50 of the WTA rankings.But the No.
"You have the first one, of course you're going to stay a long time in the successful feeling. I did that in the Australian Open but I was just in the final, and the effect takes me so long to come back to reality," Zheng said. "I had this experience already, so this time when I had success in the Olympic Games, to come to the next tournament, I say, everything starts at zero. You are not anymore the Olympic champion. Just be humble and try to work, fight every single match, because if you don't fight, you have a big chance to lose.", the No. 9 seed from Greece, became the first seeded player to be eliminated when she stopped playing after losing the first set against China's.
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