Jessica Pegula hustles Sofia Kenin 7-6(4) 6-3 in the 2nd round in New York on Thursday in what was an all-American encounter. Pegula will play against Jessica Bouzas Maneiro in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 27 minutes. Her most significant achievement in this competition was reaching the quarter in 2022. Here you can see her history at this event.
Jessica added to her prize money $ 75,000 after winning this match. She has already won $ 215,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, Jessica will add $ 110,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 325,000 in total.
Highlights Jessica Pegula vs. Sofia Kenin U.S. Open – New York
Pegula’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Jessica scored 75 points vs. Sofia’s 64.
Pegula
Pegula was effective at converting 57% of the break points that she conquered (4/7).
Kenin
On the other side, Kenin was far from perfect in converting her break points (only 43% – 3/7). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Pegula and Kenin is 3-2 for Jessica.
Draw and next match H2H: Jessica Pegula vs. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro – stats
Pegula will play Bouzas Maneiro in the 3rd round.
There is no head to head record between Jessica Pegula and Jessica Bouzas Maneiro since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Pegula was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Sofia Kenin in the 2nd game (2-0). Anyhow, Jessica was not done to come back to break Kenin in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 5th (3-2) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 4.
Tiebreak
Pegula won 4 minibreaks in the 4th (2-2), 5th (3-2), 9th (6-3) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, Kenin won 2 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0) and 10th (4-6) point.
Pegula won the tiebreak 7-4 after she conquered a decisive 5-3 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 0-2, 1-2, 2-2, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 5-3, 6-3, 6-4, 7-4
Pegula converted 66% of her break points (2/3). She had 3 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-2 30-40 and 40-A) and the 5th game (2-2 0-40). In addition on the other side, Sofia converted 33% of her break points (2/6). She had her opportunities in the 2nd (2-1 15-40), the 6th (2-3 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 8th game (4-3 15-40 and 30-40).
They played 79 points. There was not much difference between these 2 since finally Pegula won only 1 point more than Kenin (40-39). Jessica lost 18 points on serve (23-18). On the other side, Kenin conceded 17 points on serve (21-17).
Pegula didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Sofia Kenin in the 1st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, Jessica refused to bow to come back to break Kenin in the 4th (2-2) and in the 6th (4-2) game before winning the set (6-3).
An important stage of this set was when Jessica won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the game count from 0-2 to 5-2.
Jessica converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-2 15-40 and 30-40), the 4th (1-2 30-40) and the 6th game (3-2 40-A). On the other side, Sofia was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 1st game (0-0 40-A).
They contested 60 points. Pegula conquered the set after winning 8 points more than Sofia (34-26). Jessica surrendered 10 points on serve (19-10). on the other side of the net, Kenin conceded 15 points on serve (16-15).
Tennis Scores at the U.S. Open
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (6-2 6-1)
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Naomi OsakaOsaka (6-3 7-65)
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Sofia KeninKenin (7-64 6-3)
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Xinyu WangWang (6-1 7-64)
- Ashlyn KruegerKrueger – Mirra AndreevaAndreeva (6-1 6-4)
- Jessika PonchetPonchet – Elena RybakinaRybakina (w/o)
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Anna BondarBondar (6-2 6-4)
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Ena ShibaharaShibahara (6-0 6-1)
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (0-0 ret.)
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Varvara LepchenkoLepchenko (6-3 6-4)
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (5-7 6-1 6-2)
- Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro – Katie BoulterBoulter (7-5 7-5)
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Clara TausonTauson (6-4 6-4)
- Sara ErraniErrani – Caroline DolehideDolehide (7-5 7-5)
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (3-6 7-61 6-3)
- Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Renata ZarazuaZarazua (6-3 6-3)
- Jule NiemeierNiemeier – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (6-4 6-0)
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Iva JovicJovic (4-6 6-4 7-5)
- Elise MertensMertens – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (6-3 6-2)
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Clara BurelBurel (6-1 6-4)
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (6-1 6-2)
- Cori GauffGauff – Tatjana MariaMaria (6-4 6-0)
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Harriet DartDart (7-610 6-1)
- Donna VekicVekic – Greetje MinnenMinnen (7-5 6-1)
- Paula BadosaBadosa – Taylor TownsendTownsend (6-3 7-5)
- Yafan WangWang – Diane ParryParry (6-0 6-4)
- Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (6-4 7-5)
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Erika AndreevaAndreeva (6-73 6-1 6-2)
- Peyton StearnsStearns – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (6-1 7-63)
- Madison KeysKeys – Maya JointJoint (6-4 6-0)
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Arantxa RusRus (6-1 6-1)
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (6-3 6-1)
Upcoming matches
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- Sara ErraniErrani – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jessika PonchetPonchet – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Yafan WangWang (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Marta KostyukKostyuk (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Cori GauffGauff (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Jule NiemeierNiemeier (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Donna VekicVekic – Peyton StearnsStearns (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Madison KeysKeys – Elise MertensMertens (3-1) – H2H details and stats
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (2-3) – H2H details and stats