Gauff reels off 4 games vs. Pegula to win Wuhan

WUHAN, China -- Coco Gauff reeled disconnected 4 consecutive games to bushed Jessica Pegula 6-4, 7-5 and triumph the Wuhan Open connected Sunday successful an all-American final.

Gauff, 21, won her 2nd rubric of the year, having claimed the French Open connected clay, and she present has 11 vocation titles.

"Winning each lucifer (in the tournament) successful consecutive sets, I don't cognize if I've done that earlier connected a rubric run," Gauff said. "I conscionable felt similar I was truly arrogant of what I accomplished this week, careless of the effect today."

The third-ranked Gauff served to prevention the 2nd acceptable astatine 5-3 down. She held and past broke the sixth-ranked Pegula to emotion for 5-5.

Pegula's forehand volley astatine the nett landed wide to springiness Gauff a archetypal lucifer constituent and, with Pegula connected 2nd serve, she clinched it with a forehand victor pursuing a little rally.

The 31-year-old Pegula rallied to bushed top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka successful the semifinals. But this clip she mislaid momentum and missed retired connected a 10th vocation rubric arsenic Gauff became the 2nd American to assertion the Wuhan rubric aft Venus Williams successful 2015.

It was their seventh vocation gathering and archetypal successful a final. Pegula leads 4-3 wide against Gauff, with whom she has won respective WTA doubles titles.

"We've spent a batch of clip unneurotic and, adjacent though I'm a spot older, I ever respect and respect her truthful much," Pegula said of Gauff. "She's conscionable truthful mature for her age."

Gauff improved to 11-3 successful finals; Pegula dropped to 9-11.