Jessica Pegula said it is approaching 2025 US Open with a combination of pressure and renewed trust after its painful runner last year when Aryna Sabalenka beat her 7-5, 7-5 If you want to win a crown for flushing the meadow and the third title Grand Slam.
World No. 4 was one of the most convenient players on the WTA tour and this season strengthened its authorization Grand Slam with titles in Charleston and Bad Homburg and increased its career to nine.
Her 2024 campaign in New York, even though it ended in heart break, was the highlight of her career. In the quarterfinals, the highest seeds of Iga Swiatlek amazed and mounted a mixing return against Karolina Muchov in the semifinals before it did not closely achieved in the tense finals.
Since then, Pegula has talked about how the energy of the crowd Arthur Ash has brought her in difficult moments, hoping to draw on this support again.
“There is a little more pressure, but at the same time (there is) a little more confidence. Last year it comes into this swing, there was not so much pressure, but I was also a little worried as I would do,” Pegula said.
“I don’t feel like playing great tennis”
Jessica Pegula has recently lasted a number of unsatisfactory results. At 2025 Citi Open lost in the third round Leylah Fernandez 6-3, 1–6, 7–5. In Wimbledon, the third seed was in the first round against Elisabetta Cocciarto, 6–2, 6–3.
Early losses followed at the National Bank Open and Cincinnati. Pegula acknowledged her struggles, but emphasized her determination to overcome the gap from Open USA.
“I don’t feel like playing great tennis. Sometimes I am, but I feel very up and down, a little sloppy, which I don’t like. I really mind. I’m a little perfectionist, so I hate to say,” Pegula said.
“I feel like I have gone through the phases in my career – a few tournaments – where I feel like that, and you have to figure out how to get out of it and not regret it or apologize. I have to come,” Pegula added.
At the US Open, Pegula will start a campaign against Egypt Mayar Sheriff on Monday, August 25th.
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Published:
Sabyasachi Chowdhury
Published on:
August 22, 2025
