Coco Gauff crushes Karolina Muchova to reach Miami Open final

[p]The American world ‌number four made a slow start ‌as [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/muchova-karolina/Or4Qa1ye/"]Muchova[/a] broke immediately to ‌take the opening game, but that proved to be the Czech's only ‌moment of clarity. [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/gauff-coco/f5BXmEH6/"]Gauff[/a] responded ⁠with a ‌break of her own to level and ​then reeled off the remaining games without dropping a ​single one, closing out the first set to love in ruthless ⁠fashion.[/p][p]Muchova, 29, ​had been in fine form coming into the contest, having won the title in Doha earlier this ‌season before defeating [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/mboko-victoria/AqVez8TJ/"]Victoria Mboko[/a], in a rematch of that Doha final, in the Miami quarter-finals.[/p][embed guid="7d5a440e-5ed8-4827-aa33-062005ecf1f3" url="https://x.com/WTA/status/2037270071559496177" social-type="twitter" /][p]But a flurry of unforced errors undid her in the second set, with Gauff breaking three times to complete a dominant victory while extending ‌her perfect head-to-head record to ​six wins against the Czech.[/p][p]Gauff will ‌face either [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/sabalenka-aryna/vyhksgUB/"]Aryna Sabalenka[/a] or [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/rybakina-elena/UDzElXdm/"]Elena Rybakina[/a] in Saturday's final, with the two heavyweights scheduled to contest the second semi-final later ⁠on Thursday.[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/tennis/gauff-c-f5BXmEH6/muchova-k-Or4Qa1ye/?mid=I7WZWb1C"]Check out the game summary with Flashscore.[/a][/p]