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American teenager Coco Gauff suffered a shock defeat by Katerina Siniakova in the second round at the Qatar Open.<\/b><\/p>\n
World number three Gauff lost six games in a row in the second set and was beaten 6-2 6-4 by Czech Siniakova.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old Gauff was making her first appearance since an Australian Open semi-final loss to Aryna Sabalenka last month.<\/p>\n
Despite being seeded second in Doha, Gauff could not find her usual rhythm against 27-year-old Siniakova.<\/p>\n
After losing the opening set, last year’s US Open champion regained her composure to race into a 4-0 lead in the second set.<\/p>\n
But Siniakova, who is a seven-time Grand Slam champion in women’s doubles, hit back spectacularly to claim one of the biggest victories of her singles career.<\/p>\n
Also on Tuesday, Naomi Osaka<\/b> booked her place in the last 16 with a straight-set victory against Croatia’s Petra Martic<\/b>.<\/p>\n
Four-time Grand Slam champion Osaka, who is returning to the sport after giving birth to her first child in July, won her second-round match 6-3 7-6 (11-9). <\/p>\n
Unseeded Osaka, 26, missed a chance in the second set to take the match at 5-4 and then found herself 4-0 down at the start of the tie-break.<\/p>\n
But the Japanese player rallied to save four set points before 33-year-old Martic double-faulted on match point.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the second round, fourth seed Ons Jabeur <\/b>was defeated 6-3 6-2 by Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko<\/b>, while Australian Open runner-up Zheng Qinwen of China beat Poland’s Magda Linette 6-2 2-6 6-3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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