{"id":195626,"date":"2025-10-07T18:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/195626\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T18:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:19:13","slug":"coco-gauff-and-jessica-pegula-could-help-break-20-year-american-tennis-record-at-the-wta-finals-riyadh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/195626\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula could help break 20-year American tennis record at the WTA Finals Riyadh"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula continue their busy seasons at the Wuhan Open, which continues the build-up to the WTA Finals Riyadh.<\/p>\n

Pegula<\/a> meets fellow American Hailey Baptiste in her opening match at the Wuhan Open, while Gauff<\/a> takes on Moyuka Uchijima.<\/p>\n

But their focus will quickly turn to the WTA Finals Riyadh<\/a>, an event Gauff won in 2024, defeating Qinwen Zheng in the final to lift the season-ending trophy.<\/p>\n

And she has already qualified for this year\u2019s tournament, along with two other American WTA Tour<\/a> players.<\/p>\n

Amanda Anisimova<\/a> and Madison Keys<\/a> have also qualified for the WTA Finals Riyadh, as have Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek.<\/p>\n

\"WTAPhoto by Clive Brunskill\/Getty ImagesCoco Gauff and Jessica Pegula could help break 20-year American record at WTA Finals<\/p>\n

Gauff, Anisimova and Keys could be joined by Pegula at the season-ending event in November, with Pegula currently fifth in the rankings.<\/p>\n

And her presence would mean that four American women would be playing at the WTA Finals for the first time in more than 20 years.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Aryna Sabalenka can achieve a record in Wuhan which only three WTA players in history have ever done before<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2002, Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Jennifer Capriati and Monica Seles flew the flag for the USA at the tournament.<\/p>\n

Just after the turn of the century, Belgian Kim Clijsters defeated Serena Williams 7-5, 6-3 to claim the title.<\/p>\n

RankPlayerPoints1Aryna Sabalenka (Qualified)9,6102Iga Swiatek (Qualified)8,1533Amanda Anisimova (Qualified)5,9084Coco Gauff (Qualified)5,5745Jessica Pegula4,5986Madison Keys (Qualified)4,4507Mirra Andreeva4,3098Elena Rybakina3,806Race to the WTA Finals 2025Tracy Austin and Pam Shriver react to potential American women\u2019s tennis record<\/p>\n

It has indeed been a stunning season for American women\u2019s tennis, epitomised by their Grand Slam champions.<\/p>\n

Keys won the Australian Open and Gauff won the French Open, while Anisimova reached the finals of Wimbledon and the US Open.<\/p>\n

\"2025Photo by Julian Finney\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Former players Tracy Austin and Pam Shriver have now reacted to their latest efforts regarding the WTA Finals, with the former saying on Tennis Channel: \u201cI\u2019m so proud of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cA couple of them have been there a number of times. For Madison Keys, she\u2019s going to go back a second time.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think for Amanda Anisimova, this is so special. We have all watched her as a young teen, get to the semifinals of Roland Garros, have that break a couple of years ago, the mental break, and then this year, just the trajectory of going into the top 10, into the top five now.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd now she is number three in the race. She has worked hard, she deserves it, fun to watch her success.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"IgaPhoto by Julian Finney\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Shriver added: \u201cThere have been many eras in women\u2019s tennis where having four USA women in the top eight was kind of normal. And to see it back is great.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to remember the momentum last year at the end with Pegula getting in the finals of the US Open and Coco Gauff winning the championship was big.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut this is the last time it happened (2002), over 20 years ago. And look at those names. They are legendary names in US tennis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sam Querrey reacts to America potentially having two players at the ATP Finals<\/p>\n

The impressive scene with American women\u2019s tennis was indeed referenced by former player Sam Querrey when commenting on their male counterparts.<\/p>\n

Discussing how America could have two men make the ATP Finals for the first time since 2006, Querrey said on Tennis Channel: \u201cThat just tells everyone, not just me, tells America, the American men\u2026 we\u2019ve been lagging behind the women for a little bit.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the American men with [Taylor] Fritz, with [Ben] Shelton, with Tommy Paul, Frances Tiafoe, and then the young guns coming up too. We\u2019ve got Learner Tien, who we\u2019re talking a lot about.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a good group of American men. So we\u2019ve got two this year, maybe three next year, maybe four who knows, but we\u2019ll take the two for now.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is Fritz and Shelton who look set to clinch spots at this year\u2019s ATP Finals, which will take place in Turin in November.<\/p>\n

They would follow in the footsteps of 2006 duo James Blake and Andy Roddick, with the former having been beaten by Roger Federer in that year\u2019s final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula continue their busy seasons at the Wuhan Open,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,4305,35058,82,593,4306,97177],"class_list":{"0":"post-195626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-coco-gauff","11":"tag-jessica-pegula","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-wta","15":"tag-wta-finals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}