She thinks fans shouldn’t have to wait for a changeover between matches to exit and\/or re-enter. “Yeah, I think you should be able to probably [do that],” she continued. “I hate when you’re standing outside and it’s two really long games and you have to wait for a changeover and you miss… I think that should change.”<\/p>\n
“I don’t really get bothered by fans having to come in and out, if there’s a lot going on. I know some players are, like, nobody can move in the whole stadium.”<\/p>\n
“I’m not like that, so I would like to see that change because I think from a fan perspective to have to wait and miss, like, a huge part of the match, that’s not fun for a fan.”<\/p>\n
Pegula has reached seven career Grand Slam quarterfinals but hasn’t since last year’s US Open. She was upset by unseeded Italian player Elisabetta Cocciaretto in the first round at Wimbledon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
DON’T MISS:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her path to the 2025 US Open finals includes a potential matchup against former world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka in the third round, No. 16 Belinda Bencic in the fourth, No. 5 Mirra Andreeva in the quarters, and No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the semifinals.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She thinks fans shouldn’t have to wait for a changeover between matches to exit and\/or re-enter. “Yeah, I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,69137,27488,85,747,6414,69138,1751],"class_list":{"0":"post-93372","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-fan-engagement","11":"tag-jessica-pegula","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-tennis-section","15":"tag-tennis-crowd-rules","16":"tag-us-open"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93372","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=93372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}