Jessica Pegula posing with the trophy© X (Twitter)
The world number four Jessica Pegula propelled her first WTA title in 2025 on Sunday, beating McCartney Kessler 7-5, 6-2 in a fully American final in Austin, Texas. Pegula, the seeded, won a seventh WTA title and her first since she won the 1000 event in Toronto last year. It was one of the two titles of Pegula in a campaign in 2024 in which she also reached the United States final. In Kessler, she stopped a rapid rise talent, the first two WTA finals of which gave a pair of titles – in Cleveland last August and in Hobart in January.
The 25 -year -old man arrived in Austin High after winning his first top 10 player in a career with an upheaval from Coco Gauff in the second round in Dubai.
But she could not find a way to pass Pegula, who broke a sequence of three defeats in the final for a confidence construction crown before the prestigious hard short tournaments at Indian Wells and Miami.
Pegula, the only player in the top 10 in the draw, dropped only one set all week.
Kessler seemed ready to change this when she joined 0-2 to take a 4-2 advance in the first set.
But too many unl in forced errors of Kessler allowed Pegula to return to and after Kessler missed a chance to break in the 11th match, she was broken in the next while Pegula pocketed the first set.
Kessler broke Pegula to open the second, but Pegula won the next four games to take control.
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