Pegula to face Victoria Azarenka in Aussie Open quarter-finals on Tuesday
At the draw ceremony for the season-ending WTA Finals in October, the emcee called Jessica Pegula to the front of the room and asked the 28-year-old American about her championship at an event in Mexico a handful of days earlier.
The No. 3 Pegula is the highest-seeded woman left, with No. 1 Iga Swiatek and No. 2 Ons Jabeur eliminated. “She plays quite simple, which is, I would say, a compliment,” Azarenka said, likening that aspect of Pegula’s approach to former No. 1 Ash Barty, who “just did certain things so well, over and over and over again.”
And it’s a long way from her trying times over the past decade. There was a 2013 knee problem that required surgery, but she worked her way back from that and earned a Grand Slam main-draw debut at the 2015 U.S. Open by beating 2009 U.S. Open quarter-finalist Melanie Oudin in the last round of qualifying.
In Grand Slam action, Pegula went through a seven-match losing streak that ended with a third-round showing at the 2020 U.S. Open, and she delivered her initial major quarter-final five months later in Australia. Another could come this week: The Pegula-Azarenka winner will face whoever emerges from Tuesday’s quarter-final between 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina and 2017 French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko.
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