加布·高芙在北京，以6比1、6比3的成绩击败了库尔尼娜，成功夺得了中国公开赛的冠军。这是她继纽约之后收获的第二个WTA 1000级别的赛事胜利。
在赢得中国公开赛之前，她的目标更多的是为明年做准备，并利用赛季最后六周的时间进行调整和实验，而不必过于担心结果。这个时期对她是赛季的预热阶段。
加布在北京参观了紫禁城后，与卡尔·阿尔卡拉兹一同赢得了这项冠军。在决赛中，他经历了与世界排名第一的詹尼克·辛尼的激烈三局对决并最终获胜。
中国公开赛对她而言是个转折点，在此之前，她在16强赛中遇到了大阪直美，后者在第一盘比赛获胜后因下背部受伤不得不退出了第二轮比赛。加布从上一场比赛中迅速恢复，并逆转胜了接下来的两场单打比赛，最后又以2比6、6比2、6比2的成绩战胜了库尔尼娜。
虽然她对目前的状态感到满意，但仍然存在一些需要解决的问题，比如发球双误和底线击球还需要改进。赛后，她自信地说：“当然，我的状态非常不错。”
接下来的计划将是继续完善她的技术，并争取在即将到来的比赛中有更好的表现。
新闻来源：www.nytimes.com
原文地址：Coco Gauff wins China Open the old way with new coaching team
新闻日期：2024-10-06
原文摘要：
Change coach. Win next tournament. Just like Coco Gauff drew it up. Taking advantage of what has become one of the biggest rarities in women’s tennis, an off-day for , Gauff took the China Open title 6-1, 6-3, Sunday in Beijing. That is no small thing, given the tumult in her tennis life during the past month. After , , her coach of the previous 14 months. Gilbert, a renowned strategist, joined team Gauff during the summer of 2023 and helped to guide her to the best month of her tennis career, including her maiden Grand Slam title in New York. Advertisement Enter Matt Daly, a little-known grip specialist, who is now working alongside Jean-Christophe Faurel, a Frenchman who has coached Gauff on and off since she was 14. Daly, more focussed on technique than tactics, is in the entourage because Gauff needs more than strategy. Still just 20, she has technical issues and some mental blocks with her forehand and her serve that can produce strings of errors at the most inopportune times — not that there are any good times for double faults and forehands into the net or long and wide. Gilbert was a master of covering up those weaknesses, but when opponents figured out how to unwrap them, he and Gauff could do little but watch the error count tick up until she lost. Gauff has hit 315 double faults in 2024. The player with the next most in the top 10 is Danielle Collins, 76 behind with 239. She hit 19 in her fourth-round loss to Navarro in New York and she hit 11 in three-set wins over Paula Badosa and Yuliia Starodubtseva in Beijing, both coming from at least a set and a break down. Her attritional resilience, outstanding athleticism and talent can still carry her to big victories. Now she seeks reliable stability on two of the three most important shots in tennis, and she found it, or at least more of it, against Muchova, in a matchup that the prodigiously talented Czech simply hasn’t figured out. Gauff hit 24 winners with just eight unforced errors in their latest encounter. “You kicked my butt today, literally, again,” Muchova, who has been running hot since the U.S. Open, said during the awards presentation. Muchova made 24 unforced errors and had just 14 winners across the two sets. Karolina Muchova’s superb run to the Beijing final included victories over Aryna Sabalenka and Zheng Qinwen. (Fred Lee / Getty Images) Gauff had arrived in Beijing not expecting much. She is treating the final six weeks of the season as something of a pre-season, an opportunity to tinker and experiment without worrying much about results, since the tournaments she cares about most have already passed. The China Open was supposed to be all about preparation for 2025. Advertisement She and Carlos Alcaraz visited the Forbidden City in Beijing just before the tournament, and both ended up winning the title, with Alcaraz coming through a thrilling three-set match against world No. 1 Jannik Sinner in the final. Gauff caught a break in the round-of-16, when Naomi Osaka won the first set but had to pull out with a lower-back injury that became too tough to deal with in the second. She came back from a set down in the next two matches, then rolled through Muchova. How Coco Gauff won the China Open Round Opponent Nationality Result F Karolina Muchova Czech Republic 6-1, 6-3 SF Paula Badosa (15) Spain 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 QF Yuliia Starodubtseva (Q) Ukraine 2-6, 6-2, 6-2 R16 Naomi Osaka Japan 3-6, 6-4, RET R32 Katie Boulter U.K. 7-5, 6-2 R64 Clara Burel France 7-5, 6-3 R128 BYE BYE Gauff would be first to admit that everything is far from fine. She’s still hitting too many double faults and her ground game needs work. After Sunday, she also has her second WTA 1000 title, the level just below the Grand Slams. She has a 7-0 record in hard-court finals (with Muchova’s final record now at 1-5) and she is a step closer to qualifying for the end-of-season WTA Tour Finals in Riyadh. “Obviously it’s going well,” she said on court after her win. (Top photo: Fred Lee / Getty Images)
