Pegula, ranked 4th in the world, advances to the semifinals of the Korea Open tennis singles
Jessica Pegula (4th place, USA) reached the semifinals of the singles at the Women's Professional Tennis (WTA) Tour Hana Bank Korea Open (total prize money of $259,303). 카지노사이트위키
Pegula defeated Claire Ryu (98th, USA) 2-1 (4-6 6-3 6-0) in the third round of singles on the 5th day of her competition held at the Olympic Park Tennis Court in Songpa-gu, Seoul on the 13th.
Pegula, who was the top seed in this tournament, got off to an uneasy start by dropping the first set, but took control of the game after the middle of the second set and ended the close match with a win after 2 hours and 27 minutes.
Pegula is a well-known player whose story is that his mother was born in Seoul and adopted to the United States.
Pegula's parents (Terry-Kim Pegula) are one of the most famous entrepreneurs in the United States.
They currently own National Football League (NFL) and North American Ice Hockey League (NHL) teams, and Forbes, an American economic magazine, calculated that the Pegula couple's net worth is $5 billion (approximately 6.7 trillion won).
He is wealthy enough to win the competition with former U.S. President Donald Trump to acquire the NFL Buffalo Bills team in 2014.
When Pegula first competed in the Korea Open in 2019, he said in an interview, “I am half Korean.”
Pegula will face Janina Wickmaier (83rd place, Belgium) in the semifinals on the 14th.
In the quarterfinals held earlier, Emina Bektas (116th, USA) defeated Kimberly Burrell (102nd, Australia) 2-1 (4-6 6-3 6-2) to advance to the semifinals.
The semifinals of this tournament will be played between Pegula and Wickmaier and Bektas and Yuanyue (128th, China).
The match between Bektas and Yuanwe will begin at 2pm on the 14th, followed by Pegula and Wickmire.
The doubles team of Choi Ji-hee (NH Nonghyup Bank) and Park So-hyun (Seongnam City Hall), the last remaining Korean players, lost 0-2 (2-6 1-6) to Irina Kromacheva (Russia) and Wu Fang-shen (Taiwan) in the quarterfinals on this day.