{"id":438436,"date":"2026-01-26T11:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/438436\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:17:09","slug":"madison-keys-loses-to-jessica-pegula-now-for-all-american-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/438436\/","title":{"rendered":"Madison Keys loses to Jessica Pegula, now for all-American quarter-final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amanda Anisimova and Jessica Pegula will meet in an all-American quarter-final at the Australian Open, but their ousted compatriot and defending champion Madison Keys will be forced to swallow a \u201cdisgusting\u201d Canadian delicacy alongside the disappointment of her straight-sets loss.<\/p>\n

Keys was eliminated from the tournament by her friend and fellow podcaster Pegula, 6-3, 6-4 on Monday \u2013 and as a result, lost a wager that means she will have to eat an apple pie covered in melted cheddar cheese<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Jessica<\/p>\n

Jessica Pegula of the US has progressed to the quarter-finals. Credit: Eddie Jim<\/p>\n

A popular Thanksgiving dish in Canada, according to Pegula\u2019s Canadian grandparents, the bet was conceived while the competitors were presenting their joint podcast, The Player\u2019s Box. <\/p>\n

\u201cA bet is a bet, so I\u2019ll do it,\u201d Keys said in her post-match press conference on Friday. \u201cI hope it\u2019s less gross than I think it\u2019s going to be, but we will find out.\u201d <\/p>\n

Pegula\u2019s punishment for losing would have been to don a Kansas City Chiefs jersey with Travis Kelce\u2019s name and number on the back.<\/p>\n

It might not sound too daunting, but Pegula\u2019s father Terry is the main owner and president of the NFL\u2019s Buffalo Bills.<\/a> She said the wager was additional incentive to win.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy family owns the Bills. [The Chiefs] owned us in the post-season \u2026 I think that was really some extra motivation because that would have been a tough moment for me,\u201d Pegula said after her victory.<\/p>\n

She will now progress to her fourth Australian Open quarter-final later this week, and is excited at the prospect of facing fellow American Anisimova in the next round, despite their close ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amanda Anisimova and Jessica Pegula will meet in an all-American quarter-final at the Australian Open, but their ousted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-438436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438436","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=438436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}