SINGAPORE \u2014 Jessica Pegula has withdrawn from next week’s WTA 500\u00a0tennis\u00a0tournament in Singapore due to a recent heavy workload of matches.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter a long and physically demanding few weeks at the US Open, I\u2019m just not quite ready to get back on court and compete at the level I expect from myself,”\u00a0Pegula\u00a0said on social media this week.<\/p>\n
Pegula recently moved up to third on the WTA\u00a0rankings, a career high. She reached finals in Washington, D.C. and Cincinnati before making the semifinals of the U.S. Open for the second straight year.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old American went 15-4 during the American hard-court swing and her 50 wins lead the WTA Tour this year.<\/p>\n
The Singapore tournament starts Monday. Pegula was set to be the top seed, but that will now be No. 5-ranked Mirra Andreeva.<\/p>\n
The 28-player field also includes top-20 players\u00a0Amanda Anisimova\u00a0and\u00a0Alexandra Eala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINGAPORE \u2014 Jessica Pegula has withdrawn from next week’s WTA 500\u00a0tennis\u00a0tournament in Singapore due to a recent heavy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-901135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901135","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=901135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}