No. 3 seed Coco Gauff breezed to a 6-1, 6-0 win in 51 minutes against Japan's Moyuka Uchijima in her opening match Wednesday at the Wuhan Open in China.

Gauff drilled five aces, won 89 percent (25 of 28) of the points on her first serve and converted five of eight break chances. Uchijima held serve in the fourth game of the opening set to avoid the double bagel.

"Today was a good match for me," Gauff said in her on-court interview. "I played well, so yeah, I'm just super happy to be back here in Wuhan and moving on to the next round."

Gauff's third-round opponent at the WTA 1000 tournament will be home favorite Shuai Zhang of China, a 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 winner against Romania's Sorana Cirstea.

Aryna Sabalenka, the top-seeded three-time champion, had to rally to remain perfect in Wuhan with

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