Jessica Pegula powers past Petra Kvitova 6-3 6-2 in the 4th round in New York on Monday after playing a marvellous match to square off with Iga Swiatek in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 13 minutes. This will be her most significant achievement in this tournament. In the past, the best she could do in the past was reaching the 3rd round in 2020 and 2021. Here you can see her history at this event.
The American added to her prize money $ 167,000 after winning this match. She has won already $ 445,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, the American will add $ 260,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 705,000 in total.
Highlights Jessica Pegula vs. Petra Kvitova U.S. Open – New York
Pegula’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the American scored 58 points vs. Petra’s 39.
Pegula
Jessica was well focused in converting 86% of the break points that she procured (6/7).
Kvitova
On the other side, the Czech was far from perfect in converting her break points (only 33% – 2/6). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Pegula and Kvitova is 1-2 for Petra.
Draw and next match H2H: Jessica Pegula vs. Iga Swiatek – stats
Pegula will come up against Swiatek in the quarter.
This will be the 4th time that Jessica Pegula and Iga Swiatek fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Swiatek (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Swiatek won 6-3 6-2 in the quarter in Paris back in June 2022.
Live score progression and stats
Pegula had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Petra Kvitova in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, there was more work to do for Pegula to win the set because the Czech found the way to break back in the 2nd
(1-1) game. Jessica maintained her focus to break the Czech in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (6-3) game.The Czech was powerless in the last 4 games of the set when the score went from 2-3 to 6-3.
They contested 53 points. Jessica was the one to win the set after conquering 9 more points than the Czech (31-22). Pegula lost 13 points on serve (17-13). on the other side of the net, the Czech conceded 14 points on serve (9-14).
Pegula had a great start in this set after breaking Petra Kvitova in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, Pegula was not done to come back to break the Czech 3 times in the 4th
(2-2), in the 6th (4-2) gamein the 8th game before winning the set (6-2) after breaking his opponent in the last game.Kvitova couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 6 games of the set when the scoreline went from 0-2 to 6-2.
Pegula converted 75% of her break points (3/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 4th (1-2 15-40), the 6th (3-2 0-40 and 15-40) and the 8th game (5-2 30-40). On the other side, Kvitova was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 1st game (0-0 30-40).
They contested 44 points. Pegula was the one to win the set after conquering 10 more points than the Czech (27-17). The American surrendered 9 points on serve (14-9). Regarding the other side of the net, the Czech conceded 13 points on serve (8-13).
Tennis Scores at the U.S. Open
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (7-5 6-75 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (3-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Petra KvitovaKvitova (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Jule NiemeierNiemeier (2-6 6-4 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (7-68 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Alison RiskeRiske (6-4 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (7-61 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Cori GauffGauff – Shuai ZhangZhang (7-5 7-5) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Jessica PegulaPegula (2-1) – H2H details and stats
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (2-2) – H2H details and stats
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-2) – H2H details and stats