Top seeds of gov battles in Montreal prevailing Kudermetova and double failures – Tennis now

Richard Pagliaro | Thursday, July 31, 2025
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The Montreal service line is as vague as a fault line. Coco Gofu Blowing up yourself.

Top-seeded Goff coughed 14 double breakdowns, but in the final set, the early blast turned into an inspiring ending, playing her most active tennis in the final.

Gauff Veronika Kudermetova Entering Montreal’s 16th round today.

Roland Garros champion Gauff successfully fought his own hasty service and shooter Kudermetova in a set of scenes and rest time and will face Canadian wildcards Victoria Mboko Or Czech Republic Marie Bouzkova quarterfinals.

“I mean to survive and improve – we all know it’s not my best, but it’s enough for today,” Gough said. “Mentally, I’m proud of myself. There’s a part of the game I’m working on, and one of them is serving…I look forward to the future, and it’s a little easier when I feel my greatest hope.”

Through two rounds, Gauff caught an ugly 37 double breakdowns, but she earned a reputation for her elasticity to raise her 2025 three-point record to 9-1 today.

Come back, Coco😤

Top seeds @cocogauff Outlasts V. Kudermetova, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2!#OBN25 pic.twitter.com/z3gxc5sjbk

– wta (@wta) July 31, 2025

The ability of two-time Grand Slam champions is able to divide the struggle, overturn fake matches, and infuriate the matches. The question is: Can Gauff pick up her service as she progresses, and the competition has intensified?

Goff committed 23 double malfunctions, almost a set of doubles – in her opener with Danielle Collins, but still relied on her perseverance and legs to complete a 7-5, 4-6 7-6 (2) victory in 56 minutes.

Often, Collins often keeps putting her tecnifibre racket in court, showing that physical frustration certainly doesn’t help. Despite the double failure, Goff remained calm and dug out the third set to improve his lifespan to 11-2 in the third set.

Now, the world’s second place leads 4-1. Soon, the double-malfunctioning ghost haunts Goff again. Part of today’s problem is that Goff sometimes chases her ball and hits a mixed kick in the opening ceremony: She doesn’t get pronounced, can put the kick on the court, but also doesn’t seriously slice the serve to control it.

In Game 9, three double faults saw a break from Goff’s gift and led Kudermetova 5-4. If you are a Goff (or her coach), you might just want to hit some hard pieces at that moment to keep the racket accelerated while getting enough net dial to lower the ball into the box.

Kudermetova broke the huge serve to create space. When Kudermetova shook an inside-out forehand champion, she snatched the opening scene, exploiting seven double faults from Gauff.

From 1-4, Kudermetova teared a 6-4 and 2-0 lead in seven consecutive games.

Kudermetova gave him a 4-1 breakout point in his game entering the Wimbledon Tag Team Championship earlier this month, but Gauff denied that. Goff rotates a line downward and then strikes the opposite side backhand to hold on to a score of 2-3.

Gauff hit her forehand with a more determined belief, and he drilled into a diagonal forehand champion and entered the second set.

Many players turn to the slash when stretching to expand the key points. Sometimes today, Gauff has time to set up and hit her traditional Topspin forehand, hit Slice’s forehand on the middle ball. You wonder why she doesn’t take a brief preparatory step, creating space between the body and the ball, and then tearing some of the forehands apart, just to make her groove extend to that wing.

The second set was deadlocked, opening up a series of close calls. Gauff impressed a forehand nanny from the front almost right of the net, choosing to slice her forehand instead of hitting it to face the breakout point.

When Kudermetova caught the ball but shoveled her forehand, Gauff was surprised to shoot down the Russians. Given the new life, Gauff slammed a wide ace and shook his opponent back with his bent body to dig out 6-5.

Kudermetova knows that Gauff’s backhand is her more stable wing, and he inexplicably plays the American backhand wing and pays the price, as Gauff gets doubles in Game 12. Kudermetova saved the first fixed point, but once again challenged Goff’s backhand and obtained a high backhand shooter.

Playing from the back in most scenes, the tough Goff broke for an hour and forced the final after 56 minutes.

You can question Gauff’s serve and her sometimes forehand, but she is undoubtedly one of the toughest competitors on the WTA Tour. After scraping into the third set, Goff rose up at eight consecutive o’clock and opened the last set. Gauff cuts a front-hand title and extends to 3-0. Kudermetova sometimes barked at her husband and coach Sergey Demekhine at that time, quickly running out of the answer.

Gauff reads the Russian range and hits her best forehand back in the final set. One game saw Gauff dump 14 double failures hit her first double failure with Kudermetova.

In the first two rounds of Montreal, it was a bit like watching Goff stacking his own lane with obstacles before the game started, but still managed to overcome all the obstacles and cross the finish line first.

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Earlier, Marta Kostyuk hit Daria Kasatkina from outside a dramatic fallout, one of the craziest scores in the match.

Two points in the final, Kostic slipped and landed behind the baseline, dropped the racket, picked up the ball, reached out the point with his forehand, and finally won the victory after climbing onto the court.

Kostyuk converted seven of the 11 breakout points and won 11 double failures for the second time in a row from Kasatkina.

The 24th seed Ukrainian will face the next American McCarney Kessler.

No. 28 seed Kessler conquered the fourth seed Mirra Andreeva 7-6 (5), 6-4.