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WAMC Sports Report 8/27/24: Coco Gauff begins her U.S. Open title defense with easy win
U.S. OPEN Coco Gauff's U.S. Open title defense is off to a successful start. The 20-year-old American beat Varvara Gracheva 6-2, 6-0 in just 66 minutes on Monday. Gauff had lost two matches in a row on hard courts before arriving in New York, where she …