Defending champ Coco Gauff falls to Emma Navarro, exits US Open #usopen2024 #usopen #wta

This is pretty much all anyone needs to know about defending champion Coco Gauff's 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 loss to Emma Navarro in the US Open's fourth round Sunday: Gauff wound up with more double-faults, 19, than winners, 14.The No. 3-seeded Gauff had won 10 matches in a row at Flushing Meadows, including the run to her first Grand Slam title a year ago.Four of those came after she dropped the opening set -- including in the 2023 final and in her third-round victory Friday -- but the 20-year-old from Florida could not complete the comeback this time. That's despite a mid-match, four-game run in which she claimed 14 of 17 points to steal the second set and get off to a good start in the third."Had a little bit of a lull there," said the 13th-seeded Navarro, an American who was 0-2 at the US Open until this year, "but I was able to regroup ... and come into the third set with a fresher mindset.