By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Thursday August 15, 2024
There could be benefits to lacking time on the tennis tour, and Jessica Pegula, who missed her faire share in 2024 because of damage, is hoping to profit throughout a time of yr when lots of her friends are flat-out worn down from the grind.
Pegula, contemporary off successful the title in Toronto final week, advised reporters that she feels she is more energizing than ordinary this time of yr, because of the truth that accidents saved her off the court docket earlier within the season.
“I missed plenty of the start of the yr, so I really feel mentally fairly good the place another individuals would possibly really feel extra run down,” she stated, based on David Kane of Tennis.com. “I’m mentally ready to grind out the top of the yr greater than I might be the previous couple of years.”
Pegula missed time in January and early February with a neck damage, then skipped the European clay season because of a rib damage, amongst different issues.
Mockingly, it bodes effectively for the 30-year-old six-time WTA Tour titlist. With lots of the tour’s high gamers struggling – see Coco Gauff and Elena Rybakina, who each have been bounced out of Cincinnati on Thursday – Pegula is in good place to make a push on the US Open.
Absolutely she’d like to interrupt by and attain a semifinal at a serious for the primary time. She has misplaced every of her six earlier Grand Slam quarterfinals, however perhaps these contemporary legs may very well be the distinction for her in Flushing Meadows in a number of weeks.
In Canada Pegula turned the primary girl to repeat as champion since Martina Hingis in 2000, defeating Amanda Anisimova within the closing.
🏆 BACK-TO-BACK 🏆@JPegula defends her title on the #NBO24, changing into the primary girl within the twenty first century to win two straight titles in Canada 🤠@nationalbank pic.twitter.com/SDXIc2A44J
— Nationwide Financial institution Open (@NBOtoronto) August 12, 2024
Pegula will face artful Czech Karolina Muchova in second-round motion on Friday in a match that was cancelled because of rain on Thursday night time in Cincinnati.
Pegula didn’t have the perfect time on the Olympics a number of weeks in the past, shedding within the second spherical in singles and doubles, however she’s shortly adjusted again to her favourite floor and hopes to complete the season sturdy.
She stated it was good for her to go straight from Paris to Toronto and fling herself into the laborious court docket season with a lot time to dwell on the difficulties of switching surfaces.
“To have the ability to come again the following week and simply give attention to competing in a approach nearly helped me,” she stated, based on Tennis.com. “I didn’t have time to consider how I used to be actually feeling… It was sort of like, ‘Okay, let’s sort of see the place we’re. Let’s attempt to get the motion again, the sensation again on laborious court docket with the balls,’ and stuff like that. I nearly marvel in a approach if it sort of helped.”
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