Coco Gauff has been knocked out of the WTA Finals, despite winning her latest match.
Gauff beat Jessica Pegula in her opening match, but was dealt a setback after being beaten by Linda Noskova.
Therefore Gauff knew that she needed to beat Marta Kostyuk to even stand a chance of advancing to the semi-finals, which she achieved after beating the Ukrainian 6-4, 7-5. Despite this, it was instead Noskova and Pegula who have reached the WTA Finals semi-finals instead, with Gauff and Kostyuk being eliminated.
Gauff had previously made comments about the WTA Finals format, which she wanted to clarify following her exit from the tournament.
Coco Gauff explains her comments about the WTA Finals format
Gauff spoke to Tennis Channel following her win over Kostyuk, when she still did not know her fate in the tournament, as she took it upon herself to speak about her previous comments about the WTA Finals format.
Prior to her final round-robin match against Kostyuk, Gauff called the scenarios of having to qualify ‘stupid’ and also hinted that there would be a format change for the WTA Finals next year.
Gauff has now explained that she was not calling the format stupid, but instead stated that getting in her own head about the different scenarios she would need to qualify would be stupid.
“Can I clear that up? I was not saying the format was stupid!” insisted Gauff. “I was saying that if you get in your own head while you are playing into all the scenarios that is stupid.
“Of course everyone thought I was calling the format stupid! He asked me if I was going to look at all the scenarios but I was trying to say ‘if I play while thinking about the scenarios that is stupid because it’s tennis, because I want to win this match in straight sets. But every match you want to win in straight sets!’
“It’s like obviously I want to try that in every match. Even today, even if I lost a set I didn’t even know if I lost a set. I didn’t get into scenarios. But is there a leak? Did I really leak information that is kind of out there? I don’t know!”
Gauff won the same number of matches as both Noskova and Pegula, but was eliminated in third place in their round-robin group as a result of the set win-loss percentage.
|
WTA Finals Group 1 |
Win-loss |
Set Win-loss |
Games Win-loss |
|
1. Linda Noskova |
2-1 |
5-2 |
41-30 |
|
2. Jessica Pegula |
2-1 |
5-3 |
43-42 |
|
3. Coco Gauff |
2-1 |
4-3 |
37-34 |
|
4. Marta Kostyuk |
0-3 |
0-6 |
22-38 |
While this is the end of Gauff’s bid for the WTA Finals title, she still has one more tournament left to play this year.
Gauff will conclude her season in the Billie Jean King Cup, representing the USA in their play-off tie against Hungary. This tie will take place in Delray Beach, Florida, between November 21-22, with Gauff being joined by Madison Keys, Ann Li, Taylor Townsend and Nicole Melichar-Martinez.
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