Jessica Pegula hustles Magda Linette 6-4 6-2 in the 2nd round in Indian Wells on Friday. Pegula will play against Xinyu Wang in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes. Her best achievement in this event was reaching the quarter in 2021. Here you can see her history at this event.
Highlights Jessica Pegula vs. Magda Linette BNP Paribas Open – Indian Wells
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the American scored 63 points vs. Linette’s 47.
Pegula
Pegula won this match even if she was battling in converting her break points since she converted only 42% (5/12) of the procured opportunities.
Linette
On the other side, Linette was battling in converting her break points (only 33% – 2/6). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Pegula and Linette is 3-0 for Jessica.
Draw and next match H2H: Jessica Pegula vs. Xinyu Wang – stats
Pegula will come up against Wang in the 3rd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Jessica Pegula and Xinyu Wang face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Wang (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Wang won 6-3 7-5 in the 3rd round in Wuhan back in 2024.
Live score progression and stats
Pegula conquered a commanding position in the outset to break Magda Linette in the 1st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, there was more to do for Pegula to win the set as the Pole found the way to break back in the 2nd (1-1) and in the 6th (3-3) game. The American maintained her cool to break Magda in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (4-3) game before conquering the set (6-4).
Jessica converted 42% of her break points (3/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40 and 30-40), the 3rd (1-1 15-40), the 6th (3-3 15-40 and 30-40) and the 11th game (6-3 30-40 and 40-A). Furthermore, on the other side, Linette converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had her opportunities in the 2nd (0-1 30-40 and 40-A) and the 6th game (2-3 40-A and 40-A).
They contested 68 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Jessica won just 2 more points than Linette (35-33). Pegula conceded 14 points on serve (19-14). on the other side of the net, Linette conceded 16 points on serve (19-16).
The American in this set stepped up in a great fashion to overplay Magda and eventually she won 6-2 after breaking Linette in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.
A defining moment of this set was when Pegula won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set so as to change the score from 1-1 to 5-1.
Pegula converted 40% of her break points (2/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 4th game (3-1 0-40 and 15-40). On the other side, Linette was unable to convert any of her 2 break points. She had 2 break points opportunities in the 4th game (1-2
15-40 and 30-40).They contested 42 points. Pegula won 14 points more than Linette (28-14). Pegula dropped 6 points on serve (17-6). In addition, on the other side, the Pole conceded 11 points on serve (8-11).
Tennis Scores in Indian Wells
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-2 6-2)
- Lulu SunSun – Linda NoskovaNoskova (6-1 6-4)
- Clara TausonTauson – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (7-63 7-5)
- Xinyu WangWang – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-4 6-4)
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-2 6-0)
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Magda LinetteLinette (6-4 6-2)
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- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (7-5 6-4)
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-1 6-7(8) 6-3)
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