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Jessica Pegula has played some of their best tennis on the continued Open to the United States. He has arrived in the semifinals without dropping a set and will face Aryna Sabalenka, # 1 World Cup, who defeated the American in the final last year in Flushing Meadows.
In his first five games, Pegula defeated Mayar Sherif, Anna Blinkova, Victoria Azarenka, Ann Li, and Barbora Krejcikova. This is his best result for the elderly this year, as he lost in the third round of the Australian Open and the fourth round of the Open in France. World number 4 suffered an opening outing to Wimbledon.
However, not everything has been Doom and Gloom for Jessica Pegula in 2025. He has won a title on three surfaces: The Atx Open (Hard), The Charleston Open (Clay) and The Bad Homburg Open (grass).
Let's look who has Jessica Pegula in the box of his player in the United States Open of 2025.
1) Coaches: Mark Knowles and Marklein Marklein
Mark Knowles and Mark Merklein started working with Pegula in early 2024. With the two former players in their corner, the 31 -year -old won his third and last WTA 1000 title by 2024 Canadian open And it reached its end of Maiden Grand Slam in New York.
Both knowles and Merklein are from the Bahamas and stand out in the double category at that time. Knowles is an old world number 1 doubles and a three -time winner from Grand Slam. Before Pegula, he trained in Milos Reason, Socck Jackand Mardy Fish.
At the 2020 Olympic Games, Knowles associated with Merklein, which reached a ranking of race doubles at number 37.
Shortly after Jessica Pegula went to the duo last year, he said (through TNT Sports):
“I am working on a combination with Mark Merklein and Mark Knowles. I like to have a collaborative configuration where I feel that I can talk to various people and have different comments and keep things fresh and motivating at the same time. We will see how it goes, but really excited.”
Pegula ended his collaboration with five years with the American coach David Witt after his second round at the Australian Open of 2024. He reached his best ranking of career singles in number 3 under the tutelage of Witt, which was declared a coach of the year 2022.
When they started working together in 2019, Pegula had been on tour for some time, but their first WTA singles title came with Witt, which he had previously trained Venus Williams.
2) family
Jessica Pegula's husband, Taylor Gahagen, is a constant presence in the tournaments he plays in. At Williamsville, New York, Native, Gahagen studied business administration in Suny Fredonia and graduated in 2011. He made his MBA in the Canisius College.
Gahagen, who stays low and avoids cameras, used to work now in sports and pegula entertainment. He is now managing Dragos Capital and Agarwood Wealth.
Pegula and Gahagen planned to tie the knot in October 2020. However, it was delayed due to Covid-19 pandemic. They married on the Biltmore estate of North Carolina in 2021.
Jessica Pegula's brother, Matthew, is his younger brother, who often rests it from his player's box. He is accompanied by his sister Kelly, who saved his mother's life famous in June 2022. Kim Pegula suffered a sleep -shrub stop and did not respond when Kelly made CPR until an ambulance arrived.
On their column for Tribunte of the players In 2023, Jessica wrote:
“Although he does not like to have credit for this terrible situation, he saved his life absolutely.”
Jessica Pegula wants “revenge” against Aryna Sabalenka in 2025 US Open SF
The United States Open Semifinal of Jessica Pegula and Aryna Sabalenka on Thursday, September 4 will be its tenth meeting at tour. The Belarusian leads the head to Cap 7-2.
Neither of them has lost a set in the ongoing tournament in New York. Sabalenka reached the last four after Marketta Vonrousova retired before the quarterfinals due to a knee injury.
Jessica Pegula reached its end of Maiden Grand Slam in the United States Open last year, where he lost to Sabalenka 7-5, 7-5.
Speaking at a press conference after confirming his semifinal against World No. 1, North -American said he was looking for “revenge”.
“It would be great to be able to take revenge, obviously. It will be a hard challenge. But at the end of a slam, wait for this to happen, and wait for people to play their best tennis and play the best players, because these are the players who play the best,” he said (through Yahoo Sports).
Sabalenka would be eager to defend his title, which would be his first big one this year. He lost in the Australian Open Finals and the Open of France, as he went out in the semifinals of Wimbledon.
Edited by Parag Jain
