{"id":23092,"date":"2025-09-09T03:51:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/us-open-jessica-pegula-will-advance-to-the-semi-finals-for-the-second-year-in-a-row-after-knocking-off-barbora-krejcikova\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T03:51:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:51:30","slug":"us-open-jessica-pegula-will-advance-to-the-semi-finals-for-the-second-year-in-a-row-after-knocking-off-barbora-krejcikova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/us-open-jessica-pegula-will-advance-to-the-semi-finals-for-the-second-year-in-a-row-after-knocking-off-barbora-krejcikova\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open: Jessica Pegula will advance to the semi-finals for the second year in a row after knocking off Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Jessica Pegula reached the US Open semi-finals for the second year in a row after sending Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 on a 6-3, 6-3 straight set on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In five matches in Flushing, Pegra, 31, looking for his first Grand Slam tournament title, hasn&#8217;t dropped the set yet.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p><strong>(<\/strong><strong>Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Football League for the 2025 NFL season<\/strong><strong>))<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pegra took a 3-0 lead in the opening set, putting Kurehikova in catch-up mode. The former French Open and Wimbledon champions reduced Pegra&#8217;s advantages to 4-3, but the Americans pulled away to win the final two games.<\/p>\n<p>In the second set, Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1&#8217;s service issues continued, and Pegula was used. Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1&#8217;s first one serve win rate was 43% in the match, and she had a 31% win rate for second serve.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I&#8217;ve played really good tennis, I&#8217;m just playing very solid,&#8221; Pegra said after the game. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got off to a very good start, so I really wanted to do that today, especially with someone like her who&#8217;s so dangerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Pegula and three wins on this year&#8217;s tour is either. 1 Aryna Sabalenko or Mark\u00e9ta Vondrou\u0161ov\u00e1 in the semi-finals on Thursday. Sabalenko and Vondrou\u0161ov\u00e1 will be playing their quarter-final matches on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Pegula reached the US Open semi-finals for the second year in a row after sending Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 on a 6-3, 6-3 straight set on Tuesday. In five matches in Flushing, Pegra, 31, looking for his first Grand Slam tournament title, hasn&#8217;t dropped the set yet. advertisement (Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Football League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[292,2858,785,6229,2859,32,2635,582,1849,24,871],"class_list":{"0":"post-23092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-advance","9":"tag-barbora","10":"tag-jessica","11":"tag-knocking","12":"tag-krejcikova","13":"tag-open","14":"tag-pegula","15":"tag-row","16":"tag-semifinals","17":"tag-tennis","18":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}