Coco Gauff, who had lost all three of her previous meetings with Jasmine Paolini this season, finally flipped the script in Wuhan. The American third seed powered into her first Wuhan Open final with a hard-fought 6-4, 6-3 win on Saturday. But the numbers only tell part of the story. According to Opta Ace, the French Open champion has dropped just 16 games en route to the final, the fewest since the tournament’s debut in 2014. And history continues to follow her stride: at just 21 years and 207 days old, Gauff becomes the youngest player ever to reach the finals of both the China Open and the Wuhan Open.

Both top-10 stars struggled to find rhythm on serve, but Coco Gauff found a way, winning the battle of converted breaks seven-to-five. Down three breaks in the second set, the World N

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