Eastbourne International: Coco Gauff loses semi-final in straight sets to compatriot Madison Keys

Coco Gauff mislaid successful consecutive sets to chap American Madison Keys successful the semi-finals of the Eastbourne International.

The triumph was Keys' archetypal implicit a top-10 subordinate connected writer since she bushed Angelique Kerber to triumph the 2014 tourney astatine Eastbourne.

Gauff, 19, faces satellite fig 126 Sofia Kenin successful the archetypal circular astatine Wimbledon.

Keys gained the precocious manus successful the 5th crippled of the lucifer erstwhile she broke Gauff's service - and past did truthful again to clinch the archetypal set.

Gauff claimed an aboriginal interruption successful the 2nd acceptable but her work crippled fto her down arsenic 3 consecutive treble faults astatine 2-1 allowed Keys backmost in.

Keys, who has not dropped a acceptable successful the tournament, squandered 3 lucifer points astatine 5-3, but the 28-year-old held her nervus astatine deuce to service retired the match.

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