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Coco Gauff said she had been left drained by the racist abuse she experienced during the China Open after suffering a shock defeat by Elise Mertens as Iga Swiatek reached the quarter-finals.Mertens snapped her losing streak against Gauff to record her first win in six matches 6-3 6-3 to reach the quarter-finals in Beijing on Wednesday. Gauff’s defeat came after she received what she described as an “insane” amount of racist comments on social media following a controversial point in the preceding round. When trailing 6-3 4-1 to Mertens, Gauff told her box: “I have no energy. I’m trying, I…

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Daniil Medvedev was defaulted for hitting a spectator with the ball during his semi-final with Novak Djokovic at the China Open, but was it the correct decision or should he have been able to continue playing?Medvedev was trailing Djokovic 7-5 5-3 and had lost a point when he hit the ball coming off the wall. The spectator, who was ​sitting in the first row behind Medvedev, clutched his left eye and appeared to ‌be in pain as he walked out of the gallery, assisted by stadium staff. Medvedev did not protest the umpire’s decision to disqualify him. Monterosa This content…

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Former world No 1 Novak Djokovic won his seventh China Open title without needing a match point in his semi-final and final.Djokovic, who was awarded a win after his semi-final opponent Daniil Medvedev was disqualified after hitting a spectator with the ball, claimed the 102nd title of his career following the retirement of De Minaur in the final. De Minaur, who left the ​court for ⁠a medical ⁠timeout after the first set, ‌continued playing with a heavy bandage on ‌his left thigh. But he could not continue after winning ⁠the first game ​of the second ​set. Djokovic narrowly won ​the…

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