{"id":893649,"date":"2026-09-16T04:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/893649\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T04:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:02:09","slug":"world-no-3-jessica-pegula-withdraws-from-singapore-tennis-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/893649\/","title":{"rendered":"World No. 3 Jessica Pegula withdraws from Singapore Tennis Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-primary article-summary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 Women\u2019s world No. 3 player Jessica Pegula has withdrawn from the Singapore Tennis Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The American announced her withdrawal in an Instagram Story on Sept 16, saying she was disappointed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">She wrote: \u201cAfter a long and physically demanding few weeks at the US Open, I\u2019m just not quite ready to get back on court and compete at the level I expect from myself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cI was really looking forward to playing in Singapore and hope I can come back in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Pegula, 32, had a deep run at the US Open in New York earlier in September but fell to Aryna Sabalenka in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">She had confirmed her participation in the WTA 500 Singapore Tennis Open in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The event, held at the OCBC Arena in The Kallang, is slated to start on Sept 21 with star players including Alexandra Eala, Roland Garros champion Mirra Andreeva and 2025 Wimbledon finalist Amanda Anisimova expected to compete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Anisimova announced her arrival in Singapore in a Sept 15 TikTok video of herself working out in a gym.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINGAPORE \u2013 Women\u2019s world No. 3 player Jessica Pegula has withdrawn from the Singapore Tennis Open. The American&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-893649","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\/893649","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=893649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}