Canadian Open 2025: Coco Gauff struggles to beat Danielle Collins

VHO - At the Canadian Open tournament for women (the tournament is taking place in Montreal, while the men's tournament is taking place in Toronto), the world's number 2 American tennis player - Coco Gauff just had a difficult and dramatic victory over her compatriot Danielle Collins with a score of 7-5, 4-6 and 7-6 (7-2).

Gauff struggled to overcome Collins

Gauff won the final six points of the match to win her opening match at the first hard-court event leading up to the US Open (on the North American Summer Tour), which starts on August 24, 2025.

At one point, the tournament's top seed and reigning Roland Garros champion was just two points away from defeat in the final set. Despite erasing deficits of 0-2 and 2-4, and applying constant pressure, Colline could not get his hands on the moment he needed to pull off an upset at the Omnium Banque Nationale.

Having won a dramatic and difficult victory against her older compatriot for the first time in her career, Gauff was forced to admit the truth: "This was a frustrating match for me."

“I trained very well, but I don't think I translated that well into today's match. However, I have hope now that I have overcome the worst match of the tournament in Montreal.”

Gauff played sluggishly—and erratically. She made 23 double faults and 74 unforced errors. “Maybe if I could cut my negatives in half,” she continued, “the match would go faster for me.”

“At the end of the day, I still had a lot of energy after the match. I think, overall, I played well, except for the unforced errors,” Gauff said after the match that lasted 2 hours and 55 minutes.

“Danielle Collin is a very good player. Obviously, the fact that I broke her serve so much, it definitely helped,” Gauff said after saving nine break points against Collins.

With this result, Gauff entered the third round of the tournament also known as the WTA National Bank Open and her next opponent will be Verokina Kudermetova (Russia, WTA rank 42), who defeated Olga Danilovic (Serbia, WTA rank 40) 6-4, 6-2 in another second round match.

Gauff is only 21 years old. The Atlanta native is expected to follow in the footsteps of Serena Williams, the legendary American professional tennis player. Gauff is looking for her 11th career title - and she really wants to win it in Canada.

According to D.HG./Sai Gon Giai Phong Newspaper

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