Gauff wins all-American clash with Pegula to claim third WTA 1000 title in Wuhan | Coco Gauff
Coco Gauff won four straight matches to beat Jessica Pegula 6-4, 7-5 and win the Wuhan Open on Sunday in an all-American final.
Gauff, 21, won her second title of the year – her first was Roland Garros – and she now has 11 career titles.
The world number 3 found herself trailing 0-3 in the second set, then served to save her at 3-5. She held then broke the Pegula to like for 5-5. Pegula’s forehand volley at the net landed wide to give Gauff a first match point and, with Pegula on second serve, she won the contest with a forehand winner after a brief rally.
Pegula had staged her own comeback to beat world number 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the semi-final. But this time she lost momentum and missed out on a 10th career title as Gauff became the second American to win the Wuhan title, after Venus Williams in 2015.
It was their seventh career meeting and the first in a final. Pegula leads 4-3 on aggregate against Gauff, with whom she has won several doubles titles.
Gauff improved to 11-3 in the final; Pegula fell to 9-11. The victory adds to Gauff’s WTA 1000 triumphs in Cincinnati (2023) and Beijing (2024) and marks her third final at this level in 2025 after finishing second in Madrid and Rome.
