Updated: August 2, 9:07 p.m.<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON — The Mubadala DC Open final between World No. 3 Jessica Pegula and No. 28 Alexandra Eala has been suspended until Monday, August 3 because of the significant weather in the Washington DC area. The two players will return to the court at 12 p.m. local time on Monday.<\/p>\n
Pegula currently leads 6-4, 1-2 at the second changeover of the second set.<\/p>\n
The final was originally scheduled to begin at 12 p.m. local, but because of scattered thunderstorms, the players did not go on court until approximately 3 p.m. Precipitation resumed midway through the second set, and play was suspended at 3:57:43 p.m. They did not go back out on court.<\/p>\n
Eala is pursuing her first career WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz title, while Pegula is seeking her second Washington DC title (2019) and 12th overall. \u00a0<\/p>\n
This will be updated as more information is provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated: August 2, 9:07 p.m. WASHINGTON — The Mubadala DC Open final between World No. 3 Jessica Pegula…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747,83],"class_list":["post-840914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840914","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=840914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}