Jessica Pegula

Jessica Pegula is an American professional tennis player, born on 24 February 1994, who reached a career-high ranking of world number 3 in singles in October 2022 and world number 1 in doubles in September 2023. She has won eleven singles titles, four of them at WTA 1000 level, and seven doubles titles. She made her Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2015 US Open as a qualifier, won her first WTA title at the Citi Open in 2019 and her first WTA 1000 title in Guadalajara in 2022, and reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open in 2021. She was runner-up at the WTA Finals in 2023 and at the US Open in 2024. In doubles she was runner-up at the 2022 French Open with Coco Gauff, and in mixed doubles runner-up at the 2023 US Open with Austin Krajicek.