{"id":78475,"date":"2026-09-09T20:55:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T01:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/coco-gauff-draws-on-tiafoe-and-delusional-self-belief-in-us-open-escape\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T20:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T01:55:24","slug":"coco-gauff-draws-on-tiafoe-and-delusional-self-belief-in-us-open-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/coco-gauff-draws-on-tiafoe-and-delusional-self-belief-in-us-open-escape\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff draws on Tiafoe and \u2018delusional\u2019 self-belief in US Open escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>American rallies from brink to defeat Andreeva<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Gauff survives 12 double faults in three-set escape<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Coco Gauff has played far cleaner matches than on Wednesday afternoon. But few players today on the women\u2019s tour have become better at finding answers on the fly when almost nothing is working for them.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old American\u2019s serene march through the US Open women\u2019s draw hit extreme turbulence early in her quarter-final clash with fifth-seeded Mirra Andreeva inside Arthur Ashe Stadium. She dropped the first four games before surrendering the opening set in 26 minutes, ending a streak of 20 consecutive sets won dating back nearly a month. She piled up 12 double faults and 42 unforced errors, the majority off a forehand in open revolt. She found herself one point from defeat not once but twice during a hairy second-set tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/sep\/09\/coco-gauff-belief-mirra-andreeva-us-open-semi-finals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American rallies from brink to defeat Andreeva Gauff survives 12 double faults in three-set escape Coco Gauff has played far cleaner matches than on Wednesday afternoon. But few players today on the women\u2019s tour have become better at finding answers on the fly when almost nothing is working for them. The 22-year-old American\u2019s serene march &#8230; <a title=\"Coco Gauff draws on Tiafoe and \u2018delusional\u2019 self-belief in US Open escape\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/coco-gauff-draws-on-tiafoe-and-delusional-self-belief-in-us-open-escape\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Coco Gauff draws on Tiafoe and \u2018delusional\u2019 self-belief in US Open escape\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}