"Needs dynamic that family billions can't buy": Headline attacking Pegula after Quarter-Final loss criticised

Tennis journalist Mario Boccardi has criticised a headline that attacked America’s Jessica Pegula.

The 29-year-old suffered a defeat in the quarterfinal of Wimbledon 2023 against Czech Republic’s Marketa Vondrousova with a score of 6-4, 2-6, 6-4.

After the result, Pegula was criticised heavily in a headline posted by The Times which stated: “Six quarter-finals, six defeats: “Jessica Pegula needs dynamic that family billions can’t buy.”

The headline was criticised heavily by Boccardi who, in a post on Twitter, shared admiration for the Buffalo-born by stating: “Like, she is Jessica Pegula. She's a girl who wasn't satisfied with that and who worked extremely hard to pursue her dream of becoming a strong tennis player. I have nothing but respect for her.”

The result against Vondrousova will be a heartbreaking one for Pegula as it was indeed the sixth time when she faltered at the last-eight stage.

She has now been defeated three consecutive times at Australian Open in the quarterfinals in 2021, 2022 and 2023 editions. Pegula was also defeated in the quarterfinals of the French Open and the US Open in 2022.

On the positive side, the current world number four has just registered her best-ever outing at Wimbledon.

While doing so, she registered three straight-set victories — against Spain’s Cristina Bucsa, Italy’s Elisabetta Cocciaretto and Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko.

Before losing the last-eight encounter, Pegula lost just one set in the competition which was against fellow American Lauren Davis in the first round.