“That’s just how tennis works,” Coco Gauff told a fellow player in the Wuhan locker room. “It always happens when you don’t expect it to.” And yet, for Gauff, magic keeps arriving right on cue in Asia. After a shaky US summer swing where her serve wobbled and confidence wavered, she once again found her fire overseas. In 2024, she conquered Beijing and stormed to the Wuhan semifinals; in 2025, she reversed the script, semis in Beijing, glory in Wuhan. The rhythm feels fated now, a fierce cycle of redemption and rise. And with that, Coco Gauff now mirrors the rare records of Serena and Venus Williams after her Wuhan Open triumph, as achievements seem to fall effortlessly at her feet.

A couple of hours after her Wuhan Open victory over fellow American Jessica Pegula,

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