Jessica Pegula reacts to careless error by WTA X account ahead of Upper Austria Ladies Linz final: "Think I already secured Charleston"

Mirra Andreeva and Anastasia Potapova are set to go head to head for the Upper Austria Ladies Linz title, the perfect way to kickstart their clay swing. However, according to the WTA X account, it seemed that it would be the final of the Charleston Open which had occurred a week beforehand. The champion, Jessica Pegula, was left baffled by the mistake having already secured that title.

Following on from the Sunshine swing, a handful of tennis players opted to begin their clay season on the green clay of Charleston. A number of Americans stayed in their home country to compete, including the world number five Pegula.

She went into it as the number one seed and reigning champion and was able to continue her fine form and convert a hard week's work into more silverware, defeating Yuliia Starodubtseva 6-2, 6-2 in the final.

The WTA would turn its attention to Austria as the competition heated up in Linz. Andreeva, a late call-up, capitalised on this opportunity by reaching the final. She will take on the 2023 champion Anastasia Potapova, who has the chance to win her first title as an Austrian, with the bonus that it is on home soil.

However, the graphics on the WTA X account said something different. According to them, it was the final of the Charleston Open, a huge error that was quickly acted upon. Before the tweet was deleted and edited to say the right tournament, Pegula pounced on this unusual mishap. "Think I already secured Charleston," she wrote in response to the tweet.

A frenzy followed on social media, lambasting the WTA account with this careless mistake. "This is really embarrassing from y'all," one fan wrote. "How are you guys making basic mistakes on your graphics? charleston is over. andreeva and potapova are playing in the linz final. fix this!"

Another user followed in suit. "Smh you lot are honestly so embarrassing. we’ve gotten used to the lackluster highlights, lack of doubles coverage etc but now you can’t even make sure you name the right tournament?!"

"From promoting golf to not even able to correctly name the tournament this final is being played in," someone else typed. "Ur genuinely the most useless media team on twitter like how r u gonna post 3 times per tournament and they all have errors?" one brutal follower tweeted.

The error had been fixed, and no damage was done. Pegula, after winning a second title in 2026, opted to sit out of this tournament sensibly after backing up a month's worth of tennis competing in the Sunshine swing along with the early introduction to clay.

She will also not be playing any part in the Stuttgart Open, taking some time away from the court before a trio of huge tournaments emerge on the horizon. First, a brace of WTA 1000 tournaments: the Madrid Open and Rome Open, swiftly followed by Roland Garros.

For Andreeva and Potapova, they have eyes on the prize in Linz as they look to get a head start on their competitors with an early triumph.