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
Rank | Name | Age | Country | Points | Change |
1 | Iga Świątek | 23 | POL | 10885 | |
2 | Aryna Sabalenka | 26 | BLR | 8016 | |
3 | Jessica Pegula | 30 | USA | 6220 | 3 |
4 | Elena Rybakina | 25 | KAZ | 5871 | |
5 | Jasmine Paolini | 28 | ITA | 5398 | |
6 | Coco Gauff | 20 | USA | 4983 | -3 |
7 | Qinwen Zheng | 21 | CHN | 3980 | |
8 | Emma Navarro | 23 | USA | 3810 | 4 |
9 | Barbora Krejčíková | 28 | CZE | 3631 | -1 |
10 | Maria Sakkari | 29 | GRE | 3515 | -1 |
11 | Danielle Collins | 30 | USA | 3362 | |
12 | Jeļena Ostapenko | 27 | LAT | 3008 | -2 |
13 | Daria Kasatkina | 27 | RUS | 2803 | |
14 | Anna Kalinskaya | 25 | RUS | 2772 | 1 |
15 | Ludmilla Samsonova | 25 | RUS | 2720 | 1 |
16 | Diana Shnaider | 20 | RUS | 2595 | 2 |
17 | Beatriz Haddad Maia | 28 | BRA | 2581 | 4 |
18 | Marta Kostyuk | 22 | UKR | 2468 | 1 |
19 | Victoria Azarenka | 35 | BLR | 2326 | 1 |
20 | Paula Badosa | 26 | ESP | 2325 | 9 |
21 | Donna Vekić | 28 | CRO | 2243 | 3 |
22 | Ons Jabeur | 30 | TUN | 2211 | -5 |
23 | Mirra Andreeva | 17 | RUS | 2153 | |
24 | Madison Keys | 29 | USA | 2077 | -10 |
25 | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | 33 | RUS | 2021 | 2 |
26 | Leylah Fernandez | 22 | CAN | 2009 | |
27 | Linda Nosková | 19 | CZE | 1953 | -2 |
28 | Elina Svitolina | 29 | UKR | 1942 | |
29 | Yulia Putintseva | 29 | KAZ | 1881 | 3 |
30 | Caroline Garcia | 30 | FRA | 1808 | |
31 | Ekaterina Alexandrova | 29 | RUS | 1778 | |
32 | Elise Mertens | 28 | BEL | 1749 | 3 |
33 | Markéta Vondroušová | 25 | CZE | 1748 | -11 |
34 | Dayana Yastremska | 24 | UKR | 1662 | |
35 | Katie Boulter | 28 | GBR | 1655 | -2 |
36 | Anastasia Potapova | 23 | RUS | 1517 | 2 |
37 | Kateřina Siniaková | 28 | CZE | 1474 | -1 |
38 | Yue Yuan | 25 | CHN | 1414 | -1 |
39 | Lulu Sun | 23 | NZL | 1377 | 2 |
40 | Karolína Plíšková | 32 | CZE | 1324 | 4 |
41 | Magda Linette | 32 | POL | 1311 | 1 |
42 | Veronika Kudermetova | 27 | RUS | 1308 | 4 |
43 | Magdalena Fręch | 26 | POL | 1303 | |
44 | Caroline Dolehide | 26 | USA | 1287 | 5 |
45 | Marie Bouzková | 26 | CZE | 1252 | |
46 | Amanda Anisimova | 23 | USA | 1216 | 4 |
47 | Taylor Townsend | 28 | USA | 1207 | 1 |
48 | Xinyu Wang | 22 | CHN | 1203 | -8 |
49 | Peyton Stearns | 22 | USA | 1173 | -2 |
50 | Elina Avanesyan | 21 | ARM | 1140 | 1 |
51 | Ashlyn Krueger | 20 | USA | 1137 | 8 |
52 | Anhelina Kalinina | 27 | UKR | 1136 | 3 |
53 | Karolína Muchová | 28 | CZE | 1126 | -1 |
54 | Sofia Kenin | 25 | USA | 1099 | |
55 | Diane Parry | 22 | FRA | 1062 | 5 |
56 | Viktoriya Tomova | 29 | BUL | 1031 | 2 |
57 | Elisabetta Cocciaretto | 23 | ITA | 1023 | 8 |
58 | Clara Burel | 23 | FRA | 1015 | -2 |
59 | Katie Volynets | 22 | USA | 1012 | -2 |
60 | Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro | 21 | ESP | 1011 | 14 |
61 | Moyuka Uchijima | 23 | JPN | 1008 | 3 |
62 | Yafan Wang | 30 | CHN | 991 | 18 |
63 | Sloane Stephens | 31 | USA | 987 | -1 |
64 | Xiyu Wang | 23 | CHN | 970 | -11 |
65 | Sorana Cîrstea | 34 | ROU | 951 | -26 |
66 | Mccartney Kessler | 25 | USA | 951 | -3 |
67 | Varvara Gracheva | 24 | FRA | 935 | -1 |
68 | Erika Andreeva | 20 | RUS | 932 | 7 |
69 | Clara Tauson | 21 | DEN | 929 | -2 |
70 | Harriet Dart | 28 | GBR | 924 | 8 |
71 | Nadia Podoroska | 27 | ARG | 920 | -3 |
72 | Emma Raducanu | 21 | GBR | 917 | |
73 | Caroline Wozniacki | 34 | DEN | 908 | -2 |
74 | Jaqueline Cristian | 26 | ROU | 900 | -5 |
75 | Naomi Osaka | 26 | JPN | 894 | 13 |
76 | Sara Errani | 37 | ITA | 888 | 20 |
77 | Cristina Bucșa | 26 | ESP | 877 | |
78 | Lin Zhu | 30 | CHN | 867 | -17 |
79 | Anna Blinkova | 25 | RUS | 861 | 2 |
80 | Camila Osorio | 22 | COL | 861 | 2 |
81 | María Carlé | 24 | ARG | 855 | 2 |
82 | Anna Bondár | 27 | HUN | 843 | 2 |
83 | Arantxa Rus | 33 | NED | 839 | 10 |
84 | Renata Zarazúa | 26 | MEX | 834 | 8 |
85 | Lucia Bronzetti | 25 | ITA | 831 | -9 |
86 | Jule Niemeier | 25 | GER | 829 | 15 |
87 | Greet Minnen | 27 | BEL | 818 | -17 |
88 | Tatjana Maria | 37 | GER | 814 | 11 |
89 | Océane Dodin | 27 | FRA | 803 | -3 |
90 | Lesia Tsurenko | 35 | UKR | 794 | -5 |
91 | Mayar Sherif | 28 | EGY | 793 | -2 |
92 | Ana Bogdan | 31 | ROU | 786 | -1 |
93 | Bernarda Pera | 29 | USA | 752 | -14 |
94 | Viktorija Golubic | 31 | SUI | 752 | -21 |
95 | Nuria Párrizas Díaz | 33 | ESP | 749 | 5 |
96 | Laura Siegemund | 36 | GER | 748 | -2 |
97 | Anna Karolína Schmiedlová | 29 | SVK | 745 | -10 |
98 | Martina Trevisan | 30 | ITA | 740 | -8 |
99 | Kamilla Rakhimova | 23 | RUS | 736 | 5 |
100 | Elena-Gabriela Ruse | 26 | ROU | 718 | 22 |