Head: Pegula will not disappear in the title hunt
By James Beck
On Saturday evening I wrote about Jessica Pegula, who got into the championship game of Charleston Open’s loan when she gathered in the third set of a 4-2 deficit to defeat Ekaterina Alexandrova.
I derived the story with the comment that Jessica Pegula “will not easily disappear”.
Pegula had this statement on Sunday evening, but she didn’t even have to go three sets in the championship game on Sunday against Sofia Kenin. This time Pegula only waited in the third set. How about six games in the second set of the championship game against Sofia Kenin? It was 5-1 and double setpoints. And she was tired.
Everyone knows what happened. Between television and the huge amount that personally observes, you know that Pegula survived the second and the third set in the seventh game of the second set and then won five more games in a row, the last to preserve her first Clay Court title on the WTA tour with a 6: 5 win against the Unseed, but Grand Slam tournament winner Kenin.
“I think my perseverance brought me a lot of games this week, especially at the tone,” said Pegula.
You can say that again, especially back to the semi -final flop of Alexandrova, if it looked like she was more in the championship game than in the Pegula.
Therefore, Pegula has not proven in any uncertainty that she is a really difficult player to beat.
“I have the feeling that you have to have a kind of this roughness and this toughness because the serve is not so effective,” said the top seeds of the tournament. “There are not so many free points, and I think to win a few hard points or a hard game, the dynamics of a set or a game can somehow turn around, and I felt that I could do this this week several times.”
How she remembered when she went down 5: 1 in the second set, she said: “I actually said I thought I did a wall. I only got tired because I think I would notice that I would go to a third (set), and I was somehow like, oh, I don’t know if I can do it again.
And about the loan that doubles his handbag next year. “I thought not this year? Not the year I won. I’m just joking. I think that’s astonishing,” she said.
“I mean what Ben Navarro and the Navarro family did for tennis in the USA and women, especially if this is incredible, and I think he has inspired how well Emma (Navarro) did and how many women tennis really grow and she is a superstar on the right.”
James Beck (843-795-3584, h) was the winner of the Usta National Media Award for Printmedia 2003. He has been reached as a graduate of the citadel in 1995 at [email protected].
