{"id":633345,"date":"2025-09-30T19:39:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T18:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/?p=633345"},"modified":"2025-09-30T19:39:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T18:39:32","slug":"belinda-bencic-coco-gauff-spark-heated-argument-china-open-fourth-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/belinda-bencic-coco-gauff-spark-heated-argument-china-open-fourth-round\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m Too Old for These Mind Games\u201d \u2013 Belinda Bencic and Coco Gauff Trade Barbs in Fiery China Open Fourth-Round Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coco Gauff&rsquo;s title defense at the 2025 China Open survived a tense test on Monday, but her 4-6, 7-6(4), 6-2 victory over Belinda Bencic. The world No. 3 came through a two-hour, 31-minute battle to book her quarterfinal spot against Eva Lys, but the match was overshadowed by a fiery courtside argument between the two players that spilled into the press room afterward.<\/p><p>Bencic seemed to have felt disrespected when a fan cheered mid-serve, breaking her concentration. She then thought Gauff&rsquo;s team was chatting and trying to rattle her, which she labeled as <em>&ldquo;mind games.&rdquo; <\/em>While Gauff didn&rsquo;t believe the atmosphere was disruptive at all and saw Bencic&rsquo;s complaints as overblown. What escalated things was when Bencic allegedly told Gauff&rsquo;s team to<em> &ldquo;shut up,&rdquo;<\/em> which Gauff found disrespectful. Continue reading for more.&nbsp;<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow a really tense exchange here between Belinda Bencic, the umpire and Coco Gauff in Beijing.<br><br>Bencic is normally always quite calm so must have really got rattled here, told Coco Gauff that's she's too old for the mind games that they are playing. &#128064;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y7PiQiNPSb\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>pic.twitter.com\/Y7PiQiNPSb<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Pavvy G (@pavyg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pavyg\/status\/1972966794886611272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>September 30, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gauff vs. Bencic Verbal Friction<\/h2><p>The contest was already a rollercoaster. Bencic surged with five straight games to take the first set, and even led 4-3 in the second before Gauff dug deep, winning a tiebreak to level. By the third, the American&rsquo;s power and composure carried her home with two decisive breaks. Yet, the tennis itself was almost upstaged by the mid-match flashpoint.<\/p><p>At 2-3 in the second set, Bencic grew frustrated with a fan&rsquo;s cheer during her service motion. She told the umpire: <em>&ldquo;When the point is over, it&rsquo;s no problem, I don&rsquo;t care. But when I&rsquo;m going to the line ready to serve, they don&rsquo;t need to cheer.&rdquo;<\/em> Gauff, defending the crowd, countered:<em> &ldquo;There&rsquo;s nobody in the stadium. It&rsquo;s been so respectful.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">bit of a tense moment at 2-3 in the 2nd set of Gauff-Bencic. <br><br>Belinda appeared  frustrated with someone in the crowd cheering a Gauff winner to which Coco said, \"There's nobody in the stadium. It's been so respectful.\" Belinda replied, \"They can cheer after the point.\" <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ERO55t4f9o\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>pic.twitter.com\/ERO55t4f9o<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Christian's Court (@christianscourt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/christianscourt\/status\/1972881843667325230?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>September 30, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>What followed was a sharper exchange. Bencic, visibly irritated, snapped:<em> &ldquo;No one&rsquo;s talking to you! She&rsquo;s talking to me, okay! I haven&rsquo;t started [it]. Your team is chatting&hellip; I&rsquo;m too old for these mind games, okay!&rdquo;<\/em> The tension simmered through the changeover before play resumed.<\/p><p>Post-match, Gauff offered her version. <em>&ldquo;Yeah, I mean, I knew she said something to my team, but I didn&rsquo;t know exactly what,&rdquo; <\/em>the 21-year-old explained. <em>&ldquo;They told me she said, &lsquo;Shut up.&rsquo; I didn&rsquo;t hear it, so I can only go based off of what they said&hellip; I was telling her to be respectful. I just didn&rsquo;t like that comment towards my team.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gauff d. Belinda Bencic 4-6 7-6 6-2<br><br>Coco survives a very tough contest. <br><br>This is her 9th consecutive win in Beijing. <br><br>Her overall record in Beijing:<br><br>13 wins, 1 loss. <br><br>&#9989;41st win of 2025<br>&#9989;3rd consecutive Beijing QF<br><br>Defending champ leaving it all out there. <br><br>&#127482;&#127474;&#10084; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2ZW0lZOm8i\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>pic.twitter.com\/2ZW0lZOm8i<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1972899375518261605?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>September 30, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>Still, Gauff stressed that she considered the matter closed. <em>&ldquo;Yeah, that was it. I mean, we moved on after that. I haven&rsquo;t spoken to her since. She&rsquo;s entitled to how she felt and I&rsquo;m entitled to how I respond.&rdquo; <\/em>So far, no comments from Bencic have surfaced.&nbsp;<\/p><p><em>Mandatory Image Credit: Robert Deutsch-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"mm-layout mm-layout-type-post mm-layout-slot4\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gauff edges Bencic in fiery clash marked by mid-match argument<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":633346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mux_skip_reasons":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4770],"tags":[6269,9654,5054],"class_list":["post-633345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-belinda-bencic","tag-china-open","tag-coco-gauff"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m Too Old for These Mind Games&rdquo; &ndash; Belinda Bencic and Coco Gauff Trade Barbs in Fiery China Open Fourth-Round Clash - 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