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Coco Gauff bounced back from a brutal loss in Saturday's China Open semi-finals to seal a statement 6-0 6-1 victory in Wuhan. The No. 3 seed needed just 51 minutes to defeat Moyuka Uchijima 6-1 6-0, barely dropping points on serve and firing down five aces to reach the third round.

It comes just four days after Gauff was blown away by Amanda Anisimova in Beijing. Gauff avoided getting bagelled in both sets but threw in five double faults as Anisimova beat her in under an hour. The 21-year-old vowed to learn from the tough defeat, and she certainly did.

As the No. 3 seed in Wuhan, Gauff got a bye directly into the second round, where she faced qualifier Uchijima. And she immediately set the tone, breaking and taking a 3-0 lead to start the match.

Uchijima then got on the board for the first and last time as Gauff continued her demolition job, winning the last nine games in a row. The American has struggled with her serve over the last couple of years, throwing in too many double faults.

But Gauff dropped only five points on her serve, landed 85 per cent of her first serves in, and most importantly, did not hit a single double fault.

Afterwards, she said: "Obviously today was a good match for me, I played well. Super happy to be back here in Wuhan and moving onto the next round.

"No expectations, it's the last tournament for me in Asia so I'm just going to enjoy my last week here and go back home and get ready for WTA Finals."

Gauff, who reached the last four in Wuhan last year, will now face either Zhang Shuai or Sorana Cirstea as she hunts for a spot in the quarter-finals.

It was night and day for the two-time Major winner, who never looked like herself in the China Open semi-final and had no answers for Anisimova.

"She played well. I felt like I couldn't really have a chance of getting a rhythm out there. But a learning experience for the next time," Gauff said after that match.

"I mean, she's definitely one of the best out of those I've played. Yeah, for sure her and Aryna [Sabalenka] are tough when they're playing that level of tennis. I felt like today, no matter what I did, I just couldn't get into the match. So yeah, I'm going to take this and learn from it."

The China Open was one of the extended 12-day WTA 1000 events, but the Wuhan Open uses the original seven-day format with a smaller draw. And Gauff had been excited to return to the one-week Wuhan event.

She added: "I'm happy, looking forward to playing a one-week 1000. I kind of miss playing them. I was thinking, like today I woke up and felt like it was so long since my last match.

"Yeah, I'm looking forward to that, playing in that format. Last year I quite enjoyed it, even though I was going into the tournament tired just from winning here. But I think it helped having to play back to back."