Beijing-Franse Open winner Coco Gauff was forced to take the distance against Leylah Fernandez before he closed a tight three-seater 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 to continue to the third round at the China.
The defending champion and a sturdy crowd of favorite in Beijing conquered a second set of stumbling and then struggled to serve the match in the third before he broke Fernandez in the 12th match of the decisive set to conquer it.
Gauff will then be confronted with No. 16 Belinda Bencic or Australian Priscilla Hon in the WTA 1000-Series Tournament.
In earlier matches on Sunday Eva Lys no. 10 Elena Rybakina 6-3, 1-6, 6-4 and the American McCartney Kessler led Barbora Krejcikova 1-6, 7-5, 3-0 when the Czech player withdrew from the match.
The tournament is held simultaneously with an ATP 500 men’s tournament.
A day after he became the newest tennis star to make himself apologetic to Chinese fans, Lorenzo Musetti had a less sensation the victory on the straight sets on Tour veteran Adrian Mannarino 6-3, 6-3 in a second round competition.
Earlier, the student beat ten Flavio Cobolli 6-3, 6-2 to set up a meeting with the ninth ranked Musetti in the quarterfinals.
Alexander Zverev in third place plays Corentin Moutet of France in a night game later on Sunday.
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