United Cup: Coco Gauff delivers encouraging serving show, ousts Leylah Fernandez

Coco Gauff kicked off the 2025 season with a win after beating Leylah Fernandez 6-3 6-2 within the opening match of the US and Canada tie on the United Cup. 

From begin to end, the world No. 3 was in full management of the match and she or he ended up finishing the win in an hour and 36 minutes.

What’s particularly encouraging is that Gauff delivered a fairly sturdy serving show in her first match of the season after battling some main points on her serve all through final 12 months. 

In the course of the match, the 2023 US Open champion received 87 p.c of her first serve factors – confronted break factors in just one recreation – and saved each of these alternatives. 

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Now, Taylor Fritz has an opportunity to seal the win for the US by beating Felix Auger-Aliassime within the following conflict. 

If Fritz loses, he and the top-ranked American feminine tennis participant will return to the court docket for the deciding combined doubles match.

How Gauff ousted Fernandez?

Proper out of the gate, the world No. 3 began urgent the 2021 US Open runner-up – she did not convert her first break level within the opening recreation however went up by a break two video games later.

Within the sixth recreation, Fernandez had an opportunity to get the break again however the American efficiently saved two consecutive break factors to go 4-2 up. 

In the remainder of the set, Gauff routinely held on to her serve to shut out the opener.

Identical to within the first set, the 20-year-old earned an early break and went 3-0 up. 

Later, the American opened a 5-2 lead – and with Fernandez serving to remain within the match – she collected her third break of the match to get the job executed in straight units. 

It was the primary assembly between the world No. 3 and the Thirty first-ranked Canadian.