{"id":205548,"date":"2025-10-11T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/205548\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T17:00:09","slug":"pegula-guarantees-hefty-payday-after-aryna-sabalenka-drama-tennis-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/205548\/","title":{"rendered":"Pegula guarantees hefty payday after Aryna Sabalenka drama &#8211; Tennis &#8211; Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Pegula, the world&#8217;s wealthiest tennis player, is poised to increase her billionaire fortune after triumphing over <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Aryna Sabalenka\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/aryna-sabalenka\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> in a thrilling semi-final match at the Wuhan Open.<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Jessica Pegula\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/jessica-pegula\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">31-year-old American<\/a> has secured herself a minimum of $350k by advancing to the tournament&#8217;s final following an intense final set. <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/sport\/tennis\/186824\/Aryna-Sabalenka-Wuhan-Open-Jessica-Pegula-Racket\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sabalenka narrowly escaped disqualification after she hurled her racket in frustration.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pegula emerged victorious from a tense showdown with Sabalenka, bouncing back from a first-set loss of 6-2 to win the next two sets 6-4, 7-6, setting up her spot in the tournament&#8217;s final where she&#8217;ll go head-to-head with fellow American Coco Gauff tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>While she hasn&#8217;t yet claimed a Grand Slam title, Pegula boasts an impressive estimated net worth of $15million and stands to pocket an additional $590k if she bests Gauff in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Pegula is also set to inherit a staggering fortune from her father, oil tycoon Terry Pegula, who has a reported net worth of $7 billion, ranking him as the 373rd richest person worldwide, according to Forbes.<\/p>\n<p>Her 73-year-old father, owner of the NFL&#8217;s Buffalo Bills and the NHL&#8217;s Buffalo Sabres, also possesses a stunning $76M superyacht named Top Five II, which his children are slated to inherit.<\/p>\n<p>Despite her father&#8217;s immense wealth, Pegula has carved out her own extraordinary career and currently holds the sixth rank globally.<\/p>\n<p>She defeated Hailey Baptiste in the round of 32, before overcoming Ekaterina Alexandrova in the round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>Pegula staged a comeback after losing the first set, defeating Katerina Siniakova 2-6, 6-0, 6-3 to set up a semi-final showdown with Belarusian Sabalenka.<\/p>\n<p>DON&#8217;T MISS:<\/p>\n<p>In a dramatic turn of events, Pegula overcame a 5-2 deficit in the semi-final against the world number one, ending her streak of four consecutive losses to Sabalenka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessica Pegula, the world&#8217;s wealthiest tennis player, is poised to increase her billionaire fortune after triumphing over Aryna&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[6005,49,48,35058,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-205548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-aryna-sabalenka","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-jessica-pegula","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205548","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=205548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}