Coco Gauff was really looking forward to her rematch with Dayana Yastremska at the Cincinnati Open. Refusing to look at it as revenge for the shocker of a defeat in the first round of Wimbledon, the former US Open champion saw it as a means to test her mettle. “I think for me it’s a good measure to see where my game is. I thought that Wimbledon match was a tough loss for me and I don’t think I approached it well,” she said in her press conference before the match . It would have been their fifth meeting on the Tour, and a win here would have taken Coco Gauff’s record to 4-1 against Yastremska. But the world number 31 was forced to withdraw from the epic battle.

Explaining the reason behind her withdrawal, the Ukrainian said she had been unwell for several days and was undergoing tre

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