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Breaking: Billionaire Daughters Pegula And Navarro Are Into U.S. Open Semifinals: ‘No, I Don’t Have A Butler’…see more
With her stunning upset of world No. 1 Iga Swiatek on Wednesday night in the U.S. Open quarterfinals, No. 6 Jessica Pegula advanced to her first Grand Slam semifinal.
Pegula, who had been 0-6 in major quarterfinals, scored the biggest win of her career with a dominant 6-2, 6-4 victory over the five-time major winner Swiatek, the 2022 U.S.
Open champion. Pegula’s terrific summer continues after she won the Canadian Open and reached the final in Cincinnati. Both Pegula and Navarro were born in New York State — Pegula in Buffalo and Navarro in Manhattan. Pegula takes the 7 train to the Open.
Tennis can be an expensive sport, but there are no shortcuts. You have to practice and put in the work.
Where players like Pegula and Navarro do have a financial advantage is in paying for coaching, physio, travel, equipment and other expenses. But you can’t fake it with the actual technique.