Jessica Pegula wins against Barbora Krejcikova 7-5 6-2 in the 4th round in Melbourne on Sunday. Pegula will try to keep the momentum against Victoria Azarenka in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 41 minutes. This run will match her best result in this competition. Here you can see her history at this event.
Jessica added to her prize money $ 217,000 after conquering this match. She has won already $ 555,250 after this win. If she wins the next match, Pegula will add $ 369,750 to her earnings to get in total $ 925,000 in total.
Highlights Jessica Pegula vs. Barbora Krejcikova Australian Open – Melbourne
Pegula’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:41
At the end of the match, Pegula scored 81 points vs. Barbora’s 63.
Pegula
Jessica won this match even if she was struggling when converting her break points as she converted only 28% (5/18) of the procured opportunities.
Krejcikova
On the other side, Barbora was remarkable in converting all her break points (2/2). Yet, that was not enough to win the encounter.
After this match, the head to head between Pegula and Krejcikova is 1-0 for Jessica.
Draw and next match H2H: Jessica Pegula vs. Victoria Azarenka – stats
Pegula will come up against Azarenka in the quarter.
This will be the 5th time that Jessica Pegula and Victoria Azarenka face off. The head to head is 2-2 for Pegula and Azarenka (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Pegula won 7-63 6-1 in the semifinal in Guadalajara back in 2022.
Live score progression and stats
The American won the set after she broke Krejcikova in the 7th (4-3) and in the 11th (6-5) game. Krejcikova tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 10th (5-5) game. Anyhow, Pegula refused to give way to conquer the set 7-5.
Jessica missed the chance to break Barbora in the 5th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
They contested 92 points. Jessica conquered the set after winning 10 more points than Barbora (51-41). The American dropped 14 points on serve (24-14). On the other side, Krejcikova conceded 27 points on serve (27-27).
Pegula had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Barbora Krejcikova in the 1st game (1-0). However, there was more work to do for Pegula to win the set because Barbora managed to break back in the 2nd (1-1) game. Pegula maintained her cool to break the Czech in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game before conquering the set (6-2).
One of the most important stints of the set was when the American won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 1-1 to 5-1.
They contested 37 points. The American was the winner of the set after clinching 13 points more than Krejcikova (25-12). Pegula lost 6 points on serve (16-6). on the other side of the net, the Czech conceded 9 points on serve (6-9).
Tennis Scores at the Australian Open
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Belinda BencicBencic (7-5 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Magda LinetteLinette – Caroline GarciaGarcia (7-63 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Donna VekicVekic – Linda FruhvirtovaFruhvirtova (6-2 1-6 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-0 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Cori GauffGauff (7-5 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Lin ZhuZhu (4-6 6-1 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (7-5 6-2) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-2) – H2H details and stats
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (2-2) – H2H details and stats
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Magda LinetteLinette (4-1) – H2H details and stats
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Donna VekicVekic (1-4) – H2H details and stats
