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Gauff falls to Mertens at China Open after 'draining' few days
BEIJING: Coco Gauff crashed out of the China Open in the last 16 on Wednesday, suffering a 6-3 6-3 defeat by Belgium’s Elise Mertens in what the American third seed described as a “draining” few days. Gauff revealed after her victory over local teenager Sun Xinran on Monday that she had received an “insane” amount of racial abuse on social media following a match in which a replayed point sparked an online backlash. Asked what the previous 36 hours had been like, the 22-year-old told a news conference: “It has been kind of draining, I’m not going to lie. I just turn off my phone and move on. T...
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