Jessica Pegula hustles Daria Kasatkina 6-3 7-5 in the 3rd round in Doha on Wednesday. Pegula will face Ekaterina Alexandrova in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 39 minutes. Her most significant achievement in this event was reaching the final in 2023. Here you can see her history at this event.
Pegula added to her prize money $ 41,870 after conquering this match. She has already won $ 83,470 after this win. If she wins the next match, Pegula will add $ 97,930 to her earnings to get in total $ 181,400 in total.
Highlights Jessica Pegula vs. Daria Kasatkina Qatar TotalEnergies Open – Doha
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the American scored 81 points vs. the Russian’s 71.
Pegula
Jessica was effective at converting 56% of the break points that she procured (5/9).
Kasatkina
On the other side, Kasatkina was battling in converting her break points (only 25% – 2/8). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Pegula and Kasatkina is 3-1 for Jessica.
Draw and next match H2H: Jessica Pegula vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova – stats
Pegula will take on Alexandrova in the quarter.
This will be the 3rd time that Jessica Pegula and Ekaterina Alexandrova clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Pegula and Alexandrova (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Alexandrova won 3-6 6-4 6-4 in the quarter in Miami back in 2024.
Live score progression and stats
Pegula won the set after she broke Kasatkina in the 5th (3-2) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
Jessica failed to serve out the set when leading 6-3 to be broken at 30.
Jessica converted 66% of her break points (2/3). She had 3 break points opportunities in the 5th (2-2 40-A) and the 9th game (5-3 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Jessica didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 70 points. Jessica conquered the set after winning 8 points more than Kasatkina (39-31
). Pegula conceded 12 points on serve (24-12). on the other side of the net, the Russian conceded 15 points on serve (19-15).Jessica won the set after she broke Darya 3 times in the 4th (3-1), in the 10th (5-5) and in the 12th (7-5) game. The Russian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (3-4) game. Anyhow, Jessica kept the focus to conquer the set 7-5.
Kasatkina was outplayed in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 3-5 to 7-5. Nevertheless also Kasatkina won 4 consecutive games from 1-3 to 5-3
The American converted 33% of her break points (2/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 40-A), the 8th (3-4 15-40 and 30-40), the 10th (4-5 15-40 and 30-40) and the 12th game (6-5 30-40). Furthermore, on the other side, Kasatkina converted 25% of her break points (2/8). She had her opportunities in the 3rd
(1-1 30-40, 40-A, 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A), the 5th (1-3 30-40) and the 7th game (3-3 30-40).They played 81 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Pegula won just 3 more points than Kasatkina (42-39). The American conceded 19 points on serve (23-19). on the other side of the net, Kasatkina conceded 19 points on serve (20-19).
Tennis Scores in Doha
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Sofia KeninKenin (6-3 6-4)
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (6-3 7-5)
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Magda LinetteLinette (6-4 6-2)
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (6-3 6-0)
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (6-2 6-2)
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Elise MertensMertens (6-4 6-2)
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Linda NoskovaNoskova (6-71 6-4 6-4)
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Rebecca SramkovaSramkova (7-61 6-2)
Upcoming matches
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Jessica PegulaPegula (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (4-1) – H2H details and stats
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (4-3) – H2H details and stats