Jessica Pegula has finished round-robin singles play at the WTA Finals with a 3-0 record a year after going 0-3 at the season-ending championship.
PepsiCo is donating $50K to Prairie View A&M University during the college’s homecoming this Saturday: Here’s whyJessica Pegula of the United States serves against Maria Sakkari of Greece, during a women's singles match at the WTA Finals tennis championships, in Cancun, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. with a 3-0 record a year after going 0-3 at the season-ending championship, heading to the semifinals with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Maria Sakkari on Thursday night.
The fifth-seeded Pegula extended her overall winning streak to eight matches, including a title at the Korean Open last month. The 29-year-old American has won all six sets she's played in Cancun so far and will play in the semifinals on Saturday. Sakkari, who is ranked No. 9 but got into the eight-player field when No. 8 Karolina Muchova withdrew with an injured right wrist, went 0-3 and dropped every set.
Pegula had fewer winners than Sakkari, 12-7, but also made roughly half as many unforced errors, 35-18, on a windy evening with some brief rain. The other semifinalist from their group was to be determined later Thursday, when No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka was scheduled to face Elena Rybakina inPegula already had clinched first place in the four-player group by virtue of earlier straight-set victories against Sabalenka and Rybakina on the outdoor hard court built for the event.will be settled Friday, when U.S.
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