Ajla Tomljanovic shocks Peyton Stearns 6-1 6-4 in the 2nd round in Charleston on Wednesday after playing a great match to play Jessica Pegula in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 32 minutes. This run will match her most significant achievement in this competition. Here you can see her history at this event.
Ajla added to her prize money $ 4,925 after conquering this match. She has already won $ 12,900 after this win. If she wins the next match, Tomljanovic will add $ 12,650 to her earnings to get in total $ 25,550 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Australian scored 69 points vs. the American’s 50.
Tomljanovic
Tomljanovic was pretty good at converting 50% of the break points that she procured (6/12).
Stearns
On the other side, Peyton was far from perfect in converting her break points (only 38% – 3/8). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Tomljanovic and Stearns is 1-0 for Ajla.
Draw and next match H2H: Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Jessica Pegula – stats
Tomljanovic will come up against Pegula in the 3rd round.
This will be the 4th time that Ajla Tomljanovic and Jessica Pegula face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Pegula (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they played, Pegula won 6-1 4-6 6-3 in the semifinal in Austin back in March 2025.
Live score progression and stats
Tomljanovic had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Peyton Stearns in the 2nd game (2-0). However, that was not enough for the Australian to win the set because the American succeeded in breaking back in the 3rd (1-2) game. Ajla kept her cool to break Stearns in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (5-1) game before conquering the set (6-1).
The American had no answers in the last 5 games of the set when the game count went from 2-1 to 6-1.
The Australian converted 33% of her break points (3/9). She had 9 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 40-A, 40-A and 40-A), the 4th (2-1 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A), the 6th (4-1 15-40 and 30-40) and the 8th game (6-0 0-40). Also, on the other side, Stearns converted 25% of her break points (1/4). She had her opportunities in the 1st
(0-0 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 3rd game (0-2 40-A).They contested 63 points. Tomljanovic was the one to win the set after conquering 15 points more than Peyton (39-24). Ajla surrendered 13 points on serve (18-13). on the other side of the court, Stearns conceded 21 points on serve (11-21).
Ajla won the set after she broke Stearns in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 9th (5-4) game. The American tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8th
(4-4) game. Yet, Tomljanovic stayed solid to win the set 6-4.The Australian converted 66% of her break points (2/3). She had 3 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 0-40) and the 9th game (4-4 30-40 and 40-A). Also, on the other side, Stearns converted 25% of her break points (1/4). She had her opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40), the 3rd (1-2 30-40) and the 8th game (3-4 15-40 and 30-40).
They played 56 points. Ajla won 4 more points than Peyton (30-26). Tomljanovic conceded 12 points on serve (15-12). In addition, on the other side, Peyton conceded 15 points on serve (14-15).
Tennis Scores in Charleston
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Maria SakkariSakkari (6-4 6-1)
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Caty McNallyMcNally (6-1 6-4)
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Shuai ZhangZhang (7-65 6-1)
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Louisa ChiricoChirico (7-5 6-2)
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Polina KudermetovaKudermetova (6-3 6-2)
- Elise MertensMertens – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (6-3 7-5)
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Ann LiLi (6-3 6-0)
- Ashlyn KruegerKrueger – Katie VolynetsVolynets (6-3 7-64)
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Lauren DavisDavis (6-1 6-1)
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Peyton StearnsStearns (6-1 6-4)
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (6-4 6-3)
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Iryna ShymanovichShymanovich (6-0 6-3)
- Sofia KeninKenin – Belinda BencicBencic (6-0 6-3)
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Robin MontgomeryMontgomery (6-3 6-1)
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-2 6-2)
- Madison KeysKeys – Caroline DolehideDolehide (6-3 7-64)
Upcoming matches
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (2-1) – H2H details and stats
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Elise MertensMertens (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (2-1) – H2H details and stats
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Sofia KeninKenin (3-3) – H2H details and stats
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Madison KeysKeys (0-1) – H2H details and stats