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Coco Gauff won the biggest title of her young career at the Cincinnati Open on Sunday, beating Czech Karolina Muchova 6-3 6-4 in the final.  With the victory, the American teenager has extended her outstanding run of form on North American hard courts ahead of the U.S. Open. Gauff, seeded seventh, broke the Czech three times in the first set and confidently served out the opener to love in her first WTA 1000 final appearance. Muchova was too inconsistent on a hot day in Ohio, committing 35 unforced errors in the match and badly missing a backhand down the line to hand Gauff the break and a 3-2 second-set lead. Gauff had some trouble getting over the finish line, failing to convert three match point opportunities while serving at 5-2 thanks to some tentative groundstrokes. But she did not falter on her next chance as Muchova’s return landed wide, leaving Gauff to jump up and down in jubilation. Muchova, who was ranked 235 in the world a year ago amid injury woes, will enter into the w