20-1: Jessica Pegula snaps Aryna Sabalenka's remarkable Wuhan Open stranglehold to set up all-American final with Coco Gauff

Jessica Pegula has not done it the easy way this week and it can be said again after she saw off Aryna Sabalenka on Saturday afternoon to set up an all-American final with Coco Gauff at the Wuhan Open.

Pegula was down 5-2 in the final set at the Wuhan Open but suddenly start to perform and broke at the end of the tie to produce an exceptional comeback. This again Sabalenka who up to this point was 20-0 in Wuhan. She was also looking to become four-time champion and would've been favourite in the final against Gauff who was erratic earlier today in seeing off Jasmine Paolini.

It was 11 straight breaks of serve in that contest with Gauff managing to weather the storm to see off the Italian who had thrashed Iga Swiatek last round but couldn't manage to produce similar as she faced off against Gauff. But a week on from the China Open where the potential for an all-American final was extinguished by Linda Noskova which saw Pegula do very much the opposite to today, it has finally happened.

Pegula had multiple match points last week and couldn't convert them and Noskova went on to lose the final to Amanda Anisimova. She has played three setters mostly for the past two weeks spending the most time on court of anybody.

Set one was a pretty back and forth affair with five breaks going into a 4-2 lead but Sabalenka held the ace of consolidating for 5-2 in the opener. She managed to break again too on her third set point to take the early impetus and it looked very much like Sabalenka was holding the reigns again.

The big but came though as Pegula is the queen of managing to lose the first set and grind something out. She has done it time and again and stormed back albeit through adversity in the last set. But set two was all her. She managed to come back after being broken for 3-2. In what was a precursor of what was to come she managed to break and hold for 4-3 and went 5-3 up from there before closing out the set 6-4 to move into 1-1 and sent it all the way in Wuhan.

She lost her serve early in the final set against Sabalenka who went 2-0 up but Pegula hit straight back and held for 2-2. But Sabalenka managed to consolidate next time up as she made it 4-2.

Sabalenka then held for 5-2. She was broken though at 5-4 and this paved the way for the almighty comeback. Suddenly she held serve and Sabalenka didn't get a match point. She made it 5-4 as Sabalenka started to tighten up amid the pressure being exerted from the American. She lost serve as she made it 5-4 and Pegula held for 5-5.

But the twist further was that Sabalenka again in theory was set to serve it out but Pegula broke for 6-5 and was suddenly serving for the match but she managed to double fault on multiple occasions and hand Sabalenka the break back albeit this was only to send it to a tie-break.

This after Pegula had two match points but it's either back yourself or go home for both and Pegula backed herself as she eased through the tie-break 7-2 at one point being 6-1 up. She had match points at 6-2 but spurned the first. She returned for 7-2 and squeezed over the line. Next is Gauff in which she has a 5-2 record against, the odds have got to favour Pegula who is already qualified for Riyadh anyway so is solely playing for ranking.

Sabalenka on her return has had a good week but the unbeaten streak is over and she is out 20-1 for the Belarusian and the first loss is Jessica Pegula.