It was a performance that will live long in Jessica Pegula’s memory after she reached the Wimbledon quarterfinals for the first time.
LONDON – Jessica Pegula enjoyed one of those scarcely believable days straight out of fantasy land as her racket oozed winners left, right, and centre in a 6-1 6-3 fourth-round destruction of luckless Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko at Wimbledon on Sunday.
American Jessica Pegula is heading to her first Wimbledon quarterfinal after beating Lesia Tsurenko, 6-1, 6-3 on Sunday.Pegula took full advantage of her opponent’s woes as she walloped thunderous winners from the baseline to streak into a 5-0 lead in 18 blinding minutes. That blip allowed Tsurenko to finally get a look-in as she registered her name on the scoreboard, earning her a round of sympathetic applause from the Court One crowd.That respite, however, was brief as Pegula went on another three-game winning spree to take a 6-1 2-0 lead.
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