Jessica Pegula set for return to career high ranking with incredible US Open run

WTA
Friday, 06 September 2024 at 13:30
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Jessica Pegula's marvellous win over Karolina Muchova had a multitude of meanings with the American ace finding her way past the resurgent Czech 1-6, 6-4, 6-2 but it has also handed her a big ranking rise.

The World No.6 crucially held in the third game of the second set and begun a surge that saw her win 12 out of the next 16 games. She will return to her career high of World No.3 after the tournament come what may.

Earlier on, she already became the American Number One again as Coco Gauff was usurped after sliding down the rankings with Emma Navarro potentially on her way to demoting her to American Number Three.

Also despite being young at 30, she has become the oldest American woman to reach a maiden Grand Slam singles final in the open era. A truly magical week and one that has been made even better with the latest milestone.

“I don’t know if I thought it’s not gonna happen, but there’s definitely moments where either I didn’t want to play tennis, I didn’t really know if I wanted to do it anymore. You definitely hit those types of low moments,” said Pegula.

“I’ve had several of those, but in the end I always would kind of snap back and be like, ‘okay, what am I talking about.’ I would always flip the script a little bit and I have always been good at doing that.

“And I think that’s why I’ve been able to come back from different challenges even better than before. I’ve always felt like, not that it was never gonna happen, I always think the opposite, I always felt like you know what you will figure it out eventually.

“And that’s kind of something I have told myself like I will figure it out, like one of these times. And I think that’s just maybe my quiet kind of confidence to myself that I feel like I always have.”

WTA Live Rankings after Semi-Finals

RankNameAgeCountryPointsChange
1Iga Świątek23POL10885
2Aryna Sabalenka26BLR8016
3Jessica Pegula30USA62203
4Elena Rybakina25KAZ5871
5Jasmine Paolini28ITA5398
6Coco Gauff20USA4983-3
7Qinwen Zheng21CHN3980
8Emma Navarro23USA38104
9Barbora Krejčíková28CZE3631-1
10Maria Sakkari29GRE3515-1
11Danielle Collins30USA3362
12Jeļena Ostapenko27LAT3008-2
13Daria Kasatkina27RUS2803
14Anna Kalinskaya25RUS27721
15Ludmilla Samsonova25RUS27201
16Diana Shnaider20RUS25952
17Beatriz Haddad Maia28BRA25814
18Marta Kostyuk22UKR24681
19Victoria Azarenka35BLR23261
20Paula Badosa26ESP23259
21Donna Vekić28CRO22433
22Ons Jabeur30TUN2211-5
23Mirra Andreeva17RUS2153
24Madison Keys29USA2077-10
25Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova33RUS20212
26Leylah Fernandez22CAN2009
27Linda Nosková19CZE1953-2
28Elina Svitolina29UKR1942
29Yulia Putintseva29KAZ18813
30Caroline Garcia30FRA1808
31Ekaterina Alexandrova29RUS1778
32Elise Mertens28BEL17493
33Markéta Vondroušová25CZE1748-11
34Dayana Yastremska24UKR1662
35Katie Boulter28GBR1655-2
36Anastasia Potapova23RUS15172
37Kateřina Siniaková28CZE1474-1
38Yue Yuan25CHN1414-1
39Lulu Sun23NZL13772
40Karolína Plíšková32CZE13244
41Magda Linette32POL13111
42Veronika Kudermetova27RUS13084
43Magdalena Fręch26POL1303
44Caroline Dolehide26USA12875
45Marie Bouzková26CZE1252
46Amanda Anisimova23USA12164
47Taylor Townsend28USA12071
48Xinyu Wang22CHN1203-8
49Peyton Stearns22USA1173-2
50Elina Avanesyan21ARM11401
51Ashlyn Krueger20USA11378
52Anhelina Kalinina27UKR11363
53Karolína Muchová28CZE1126-1
54Sofia Kenin25USA1099
55Diane Parry22FRA10625
56Viktoriya Tomova29BUL10312
57Elisabetta Cocciaretto23ITA10238
58Clara Burel23FRA1015-2
59Katie Volynets22USA1012-2
60Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro21ESP101114
61Moyuka Uchijima23JPN10083
62Yafan Wang30CHN99118
63Sloane Stephens31USA987-1
64Xiyu Wang23CHN970-11
65Sorana Cîrstea34ROU951-26
66Mccartney Kessler25USA951-3
67Varvara Gracheva24FRA935-1
68Erika Andreeva20RUS9327
69Clara Tauson21DEN929-2
70Harriet Dart28GBR9248
71Nadia Podoroska27ARG920-3
72Emma Raducanu21GBR917
73Caroline Wozniacki34DEN908-2
74Jaqueline Cristian26ROU900-5
75Naomi Osaka26JPN89413
76Sara Errani37ITA88820
77Cristina Bucșa26ESP877
78Lin Zhu30CHN867-17
79Anna Blinkova25RUS8612
80Camila Osorio22COL8612
81María Carlé24ARG8552
82Anna Bondár27HUN8432
83Arantxa Rus33NED83910
84Renata Zarazúa26MEX8348
85Lucia Bronzetti25ITA831-9
86Jule Niemeier25GER82915
87Greet Minnen27BEL818-17
88Tatjana Maria37GER81411
89Océane Dodin27FRA803-3
90Lesia Tsurenko35UKR794-5
91Mayar Sherif28EGY793-2
92Ana Bogdan31ROU786-1
93Bernarda Pera29USA752-14
94Viktorija Golubic31SUI752-21
95Nuria Párrizas Díaz33ESP7495
96Laura Siegemund36GER748-2
97Anna Karolína Schmiedlová29SVK745-10
98Martina Trevisan30ITA740-8
99Kamilla Rakhimova23RUS7365
100Elena-Gabriela Ruse26ROU71822
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