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Jessica Pegula into fourth round at U.S. Open for first time

US Open Tennis Championship 2022

NEW YORK, USA, September 03: Jessica Pegula of the United States in action against Yue Yuan of China on Arthur Ashe Stadium in the Women’s Singles third round match during the US Open Tennis Championship 2022 at the USTA National Tennis Centre on September 3rd 2022 in Flushing, Queens, New York City. (Photo by Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images)

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NEW YORK - Jessica Pegula reached the fourth round at the U.S. Open for the first time by beating qualifier Yuan Yue 6-2, 6-7 (6), 6-0 in Arthur Ashe Stadium.

The eighth-seeded Pegula wasted a chance to close it out when she held a match point in the tiebreaker but rolled through the third set in a half-hour.

Pegula, a 28-year-old American whose parents own the NFL’s Buffalo Bills and NHL’s Buffalo Sabres, finished with nearly twice as many winners as Yuan, 35-18.

Next for Pegula: She faces two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova on Monday with a quarterfinal berth on the line.

Pegula came into Saturday with a 0-2 record in third-round matches at Flushing Meadows, losing at that stage to Kvitova in 2020 and to Belinda Bencic in 2021.

Pegula started her Grand Slam career by going 3-8. She’s gone 22-7 since, including runs to quarterfinals at the Australian Open each of the past two years and the French Open this year.