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Gauff beats Bencic and a curfew to reach first Wimbledon quarters
LONDON, July 5 : Coco Gauff reached her first Wimbledon quarter-final late on Sunday, overcoming Switzerland's Belinda Bencic 4-6 6-3 6-4 and Wimbledon's 11 pm curfew by two minutes in a topsy turvy match under the roof on Court One.Neither player was at her best after a long wait to come on court but, while 11th seed Bencic, 29, started the steadier, seventh seed Gauff, 22, proved the more adventurous, hitting 35 winners to Bencic's 19 though she also produced 46 unforced errors and nine double faults. "I'm super happy to be in the quarters finally - I don't know how many tries it's been," Gauff, who will now face fellow American Jessica Pegula, said in a hurried courtside interview. Bencic, a semi-finalist here last year and Olympic champion in 2021, took the first set on her third set p
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