"Former US Open champion Coco Gauff has stumbled into the second round of the tennis Grand Slam, squeezing past Australia's Ajla Tomljanovic in an error-strewn three-hour battle. Third seed Gauff punched her ticket to the second round on Tuesday, after overcoming a litany of self-inflicted errors to win 6-4, 6-7 (2/7), 7-5 in a match that lasted 2hr 57min."
"Gauff, the reigning French Open champion, had prepared for the US Open by shaking up her coaching team on the eve of the tournament in an effort to fix her shaky service game, replacing coach Matt Daly with Gavin MacMillan, a biomechanics specialist. However , on the evidence of Tuesday night, the 21-year-old American still has plenty to work on if she is to have any realistic chance of mounting a deep run in New York. Gauff finished with a whopping 59 unforced errors and 10 double faults, and her serve was broken six times. She heads to the second round knowing that a more ruthless opponent than Tomljanovic might have punished those mistakes."
"Honestly it's been really tough, mentally exhausting, Gauff said. But I'm trying. It wasn't the best today, but it was an improvement on last week [in Cincinnati]; I'm just trying to improve with each match."
Coco Gauff advanced to the second round with a 6-4, 6-7 (2/7), 7-5 victory over Ajla Tomljanovic in a 2 hour 57 minute match. Gauff produced 59 unforced errors, 10 double faults and had her serve broken six times, undermining her performance. Tomljanovic also struggled, enduring eight breaks of serve and 56 unforced errors. Gauff changed coaches before the tournament, replacing Matt Daly with biomechanics specialist Gavin MacMillan to address her service game. The unsettled build-up left Gauff mentally exhausted, and she intends to improve with each match to mount a deeper run.
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