Coco Gauff made little error as she swept past Yulia Putintseva 6-0 6-1 at the Italian Open in Rome. The sixth seed won seven straight games as she claimed the first set in style and took the front foot in the opener, before Putintseva clawed a game back to the appreciation of the Rome crowd.
Ad But it would only go down as a consolation, as Gauff thundered through the next five games to put a marker down in her Rome opener.
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She fired 29 winners in the 59-minute contest and held Putintseva to just one, and broke the Kazakhstani five times without reply. «It was a tough loss for me,» Gauff said on her third-round Madrid Open loss to Paula Badosa. «I think you could see that it just wasn't my day, my game, not how I like to appear on court.