Jessica Pegula powers past Jasmine Paolini 6-4 6-0 in the 3rd round in Montreal on Thursday after playing an impressive match to deal with Cori Gauff in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 9 minutes. Her most significant achievement in this tournament was reaching the semifinal in 2021 and 2022. Here you can see her history at this event.
The American added to her prize money $ 31,700 after winning this match. She has already won $ 63,350 after this win. If she wins the next match, Jessica will add $ 74,650 to her earnings to get in total $ 138,000 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Jessica scored 65 points vs. Paolini’s 45.
Pegula
Jessica served pretty well to win 77% of the points (23/30) behind her first serve, and she won 56% points (9/16) on her second serve. Pegula won this match even if she was struggling when converting her break points since she converted only 45% (5/11) of the procured opportunities.
Paolini
On the other side, Paolini was struggling when converting her break points (only 20% – 1/5). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Pegula and Paolini is 5-0 for Jessica.
Draw and next match H2H: Jessica Pegula vs. Cori Gauff – stats
Pegula will fight against Gauff in the quarter.
This will be the 3rd time that Jessica Pegula and Cori Gauff clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Pegula and Gauff (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Gauff won 6-3 6-3 in the quarter in Eastbourne back in June 2023.
Live score progression and stats
Pegula had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Jasmine Paolini in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Nevertheless, there was more to do for the American to win the set as the Italian succeeded in breaking back in the 5th (2-3) game. Jessica maintained her focus to break the Italian in the 10th (6-4) game.
The American failed to serve out the set when leading 6-4 to be broken at 0.
Jessica converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 0-40 and 15-40) and the 10th game (5-4 15-40 and 30-40). In addition on the other side, the Italian converted 20% of her break points (1/5). She had her opportunities in the 3rd (0-2 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 5th game (1-3 0-40 and 15-40).
They contested 64 points. The American was the winner of the set after clinching 6 more points than Jasmine (35-29). Pegula dropped 14 points on serve (24-14). on the other side of the net, Paolini conceded 11 points on serve (15-11).
Jasmine had no answers anymore and Jessica won the set 6-0.
Pegula converted 42% of her break points (3/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A), the 4th (3-0 30-40) and the 6th game (5-0 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Pegula didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 46 points. Jessica won 14 more points than Paolini (30-16). Jessica was flawless on serve to drop not even a single point during her serving games (8-0). Regarding the other side of the net, Paolini conceded 22 points on serve (16-22).
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