Coco Gauff reaches first Miami Open quarterfinal, completes career set of all 10 WTA 1000 quarterfinals

Having come back from a set down to win her first two rounds, Coco Gauff battled through another three-setter in Miami on Monday, beating Sorana Cirstea, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2, to reach the quarterfinals of the WTA 1000 event.

And with that win, she pulled off two personal milestones.

First of all, she’s now through to the quarterfinals in Miami for the first time in her career. She had reached the fourth round at her home tournament three times before but was stopped every time, in 2022 (by Iga Swiatek), 2024 (by Caroline Garcia) and 2025 (by Magda Linette).

Second of all, and even more impressively, she’s now reached the quarterfinals or better at all 10 WTA 1000 events currently on the calendar. Miami had been the only one missing in her collection.

Reaching the quarterfinals or better at every WTA 1000 event in one's career is already a rare achievement, but completing the collection at 22 years old—which Gauff turned just 10 days ago—makes it all the more incredible.

COCO GAUFF'S BEST RESULTS BY CURRENT WTA 1000 EVENT:

• QFs of Doha (2022)
• SFs of Dubai (2023, 2026)
• SFs of Indian Wells (2024)
• QFs of Miami (2026)
• F of Madrid (2025)
• F of Rome (2025)
• QFs of Canada (2021, 2022, 2023)
• Won Cincinnati (2023)
• Won Beijing (2024)
• Won Wuhan (2025)

Gauff is just a few wins away from upgrading her WTA 1000 quarterfinal collection to a WTA 1000 semifinal collection, as she’s only missing three semifinals—Doha, Miami (which she can achieve here) and Canada.

After a 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 win over Elisabetta Cocciaretto in her first match and a 3-6, 6-0, 6-1 victory over Alycia Parks in her second match, Gauff seemed headed for her first straight-set victory of the tournament as she jumped out to a 6-4, 3-1 lead against Cirstea on Monday afternoon, before the big-hitting Romanian rattled off five games in a row to push it to a third set.

But Gauff bounced back right away, racing out to a 3-0 lead in the decider and never looking back en route to a one-hour, 59-minute victory.

“It feels great to finally be in the quarterfinals of this tournament,” the American No. 1 said in her on-court interview. “It’s obviously a tournament that means a lot to me, so I’m happy to finally reach this stage.”

Standing between the world No. 4 and her first Miami Open semifinal will be either world No. 6 Amanda Anisimova or world No. 12 Belinda Bencic, who played their fourth-round match later in the day on Monday.