{"id":39574,"date":"2026-01-28T02:07:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/australian-open-no-6-jessica-pegula-cruz-vs-no-4-amanda-anisimova-remain-the-only-american-womens-players\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T02:07:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:07:45","slug":"australian-open-no-6-jessica-pegula-cruz-vs-no-4-amanda-anisimova-remain-the-only-american-womens-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/australian-open-no-6-jessica-pegula-cruz-vs-no-4-amanda-anisimova-remain-the-only-american-womens-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open: No. 6 Jessica Pegula Cruz vs. No. 4 Amanda Anisimova remain the only American women&#8217;s players"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Australian Open showdown between No. 6 Jessica Pegula and No. 4 Amanda Anisimova ended in a fairly one-sided match.<\/p>\n<p>Pegula defeated her compatriot 6-2, 7-6 to advance to her first singles Australian Open semi-final and third Grand Slam semi-final of her career. She is currently the only American woman remaining in the women&#8217;s singles draw and will face No. 5 Elena Rybakina on Thursday for a spot in the final.<\/p>\n<section class=\"consent\"\/>\n<p>In a matchup between two talented Americans, Pegula had steady hands from start to finish. Especially at the beginning and end. Anisimova&#8217;s body language wasn&#8217;t great as Pegula took the lead, but the 24-year-old slammed her racket and screamed at the coaching staff at the end of a decisive tiebreak that Pegula won 7-1.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Anisimova committed 44 unforced errors and seven double faults on top of Pegula&#8217;s 21, and she wasn&#8217;t shooting aggressively enough to make up for the difference.<\/p>\n<p>The second set was at least more competitive, with both players exchanging two breaks, but Anisimova quickly fell apart as the tiebreak wore on.<\/p>\n<section class=\"consent\"\/>\n<p>The victory marks a long-awaited breakthrough for the 31-year-old Pegula, who lost before the fourth round at the 2024 and 2025 Melbourne Games. But Rybakina hasn&#8217;t dropped a set this tournament and just hours before her match against Pegula, she dominated world No. 2 Iga Swiatek, so she has a tough road ahead of her.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>And it seems likely that the winner of this match will face No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the final. It was Sabalenka who defeated Pegula in the only Grand Slam final of Pegula&#8217;s career at the 2024 US Open.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Open showdown between No. 6 Jessica Pegula and No. 4 Amanda Anisimova ended in a fairly one-sided match. Pegula defeated her compatriot 6-2, 7-6 to advance to her first singles Australian Open semi-final and third Grand Slam semi-final of her career. She is currently the only American woman remaining in the women&#8217;s singles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3591,1568,3714,2862,1519,785,32,2635,881,3730,24,1217],"class_list":{"0":"post-39574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-amanda","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-anisimova","11":"tag-australian","12":"tag-cruz","13":"tag-jessica","14":"tag-open","15":"tag-pegula","16":"tag-players","17":"tag-remain","18":"tag-tennis","19":"tag-womens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39574","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=39574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}