Coco Gauff overcame some uneven serving early within the second spherical of the U.S. Open earlier than stretching her profitable streak to 9 matches on the website of her first Grand Slam title with a 6-4, 6-0 victory over 99th-ranked Tatjana Maria on Wednesday evening.

Gauff, a 20-year-old from Florida, had all kinds of bother within the first set beneath the lights at a sizzling and muggy Arthur Ashe Stadium towards Maria, a 37-year-old from Germany who made it to the Wimbledon semifinals two years in the past and hits slices on practically each forehand and backhand.

There have been seven double-faults for defending champion Gauff in that set. She put in fewer than half of her first serves. She confronted 5 break factors, however saved 4. And issues arose in different elements of her play, too, together with profitable the purpose on simply 9 of 17 journeys to the online, and a complete of twice as many unforced errors, 20, as winners, 10.

Her physique language was often adverse as could be after a few of the errors. Gauff would take a look at her visitor field and put her palms up as if to say, “What’s going on?” She would roll her eyes or put a hand on a hip, together with after one wild swinging volley that sailed a number of ft lengthy.

When Gauff served for the opening set, she double-faulted twice and confronted a pair of break factors that will have allowed Maria to get the rating to 5-all. However Maria missed a forehand on the primary, and Gauff struck a cross-court forehand passing shot on the second, then completed off the sport.

The second set was a very totally different story.

Gauff put collectively 15 winners to merely 5 unforced errors — two of which have been double-faults — and went 10 for 11 on the web.