{"id":40271,"date":"2025-08-01T21:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40271\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T21:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:17:12","slug":"sevastova-stuns-two-time-defending-champion-pegula-in-montreal-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40271\/","title":{"rendered":"Sevastova Stuns Two-Time Defending Champion Pegula in Montreal \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anastasija Sevastova flipped the script and bounced two-time defending champion Jessica Pegula from the draw on Friday in Montreal, the new mother notching her first Top-10 win since 2020, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>The victory is Sevastova\u2019s first Top-5 win since she defeated then-third-ranked Sloane Stephens in the quarterfinals at the 2018 US Open.<\/p>\n<p>The 386-ranked Latvian is appearing in Montreal for the first time since 2021 due to maternity leave and an ACL tear to her left knee early in her comeback.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2023-pro-player-gear-610-150-w-logoNEWBIE.jpg\" alt=\"Tennis Express player gear\" class=\"wp-image-173\"  data-\/>Tennis Express player gear<\/p>\n<p>Today the 35-year-old rallied back for her second career win over Pegula, winning 12 of the final 15 games to book her spot in the round of 16 alongside Naomi Osaka.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Friday Osaka raced past Jelena Ostapenko, 6-2, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was tough in the first set,\u201d the former World No.11 said. \u201cI didn\u2019t think I played that great. I was down 2-0 in the second set and I started playing better and better. In the third set I played really well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMentally just finding my game in the second set, just trying to stay on court as long as possible, and fighting for every point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pegula, ranked fourth, has now lost three of four since the start of Wimbledon.  She drops to 36-14 on the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anastasija Sevastova flipped the script and bounced two-time defending champion Jessica Pegula from the draw on Friday in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-40271","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-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40271","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=40271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}