{"id":187952,"date":"2025-10-03T17:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/187952\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T17:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:45:09","slug":"jessica-pegula-becomes-3rd-american-to-reach-china-open-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/187952\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Pegula becomes 3rd American to reach China Open semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2113\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Pegula<\/a> became the third American to reach the semifinals of the China Open after rallying to beat compatriot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3785\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Navarro<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth-seeded Pegula wasted six set points in the opener but dominated the next two sets to triumph 6-7 (2), 6-2, 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I told myself not to get too frustrated,&#8221; Pegula said. &#8220;Just stay calm, try to relax a little bit, and not try as hard to execute the game plan. That kind of allowed me to play more free.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/46461212\/coco-gauff-beats-hard-hitting-eva-lys-reach-china-open-semis\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/r1553299_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pegula next faces <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=6970\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Linda Noskova<\/a>, who eased past Britain&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=7209\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sonay Kartal<\/a> 6-3, 6-4. The 20-year-old Noskova became the youngest Czech player to reach a WTA 1000 semifinal since the format was introduced in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The other semifinal pits defending champion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3626\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coco Gauff<\/a> against third-seeded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3221\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Anisimova<\/a> in an all-American encounter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING &#8212; Jessica Pegula became the third American to reach the semifinals of the China Open after rallying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-187952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}