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

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.”