{"id":582515,"date":"2026-04-04T21:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582515\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:39:08","slug":"in-another-three-setter-pegula-emerges-victorious-in-all-american-charleston-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582515\/","title":{"rendered":"In another three-setter, Pegula emerges victorious in All-American Charleston semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Jessica Pegula having come from 2-0 down to take a 4-2 lead late in the third set of her semifinal against compatriot Iva Jovic on Friday, Tennis Channel commentator Brett Haber put it best:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust another day at the three-set office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Charleston:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/tournaments\/804\/charleston\/2026\/scores\" data-tracking=\"true\" data-tracking-event=\"click_track\" data-tracking-component=\"link click\" data-tracking-category=\"content\" data-tracking-type=\"news\" data-tracking-detail=\"Scores\" data-tracking-widget-type=\"Article Widget\" data-tracking-widget-name=\"Article Page Widget\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scores<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/tournaments\/804\/charleston\/2026\/draws\" data-tracking=\"true\" data-tracking-event=\"click_track\" data-tracking-component=\"link click\" data-tracking-category=\"content\" data-tracking-type=\"news\" data-tracking-detail=\"Draws\" data-tracking-widget-type=\"Article Widget\" data-tracking-widget-name=\"Article Page Widget\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Draws<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/tournaments\/804\/charleston\/2026\/order-of-play\" data-tracking=\"true\" data-tracking-event=\"click_track\" data-tracking-component=\"link click\" data-tracking-category=\"content\" data-tracking-type=\"news\" data-tracking-detail=\"Order of play\" data-tracking-widget-type=\"Article Widget\" data-tracking-widget-name=\"Article Page Widget\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Order of play<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That about sums up Pegula\u2019s week in Charleston, where she has won four straight three-setters, culminating in Saturday\u2019s 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 win over Jovic in 2 hours and 35 minutes. The victory sends her to her second consecutive Charleston final as she looks to defend her title against first-time finalist Yuliia Starodubtseva.<\/p>\n<p>The result also improves her record to 10-1 in three-set matches this season and gives her a 23rd win of 2026, tying her with Aryna Sabalenka for the most at the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz level this year.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Jessica Pegula having come from 2-0 down to take a 4-2 lead late in the third set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593,5452],"class_list":["post-582515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582515","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=582515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}