Jessica Pegula admitted it “sucked” and Lorenzo Musetti said it “was not easy to deal with” – but that did not prevent either player from crushing their doubles partners’ ambitions at the Australian Open.<\/p>\n
World number six Pegula overwhelmed McCartney Kessler 6-0 6-2 in just 58 minutes, while fifth seed Musetti swept past fellow Italian Lorenzo Sonego 6-3 6-3 6-4.<\/p>\n
Pegula and her American compatriot Kessler played doubles together on Wednesday at Melbourne Park, losing to fifth seeds Gabriela Dabrowski and Luisa Stefani.<\/p>\n
Musetti and Sonego, meanwhile, won the doubles title at the Hong Kong Open earlier in January.<\/p>\n
“It’s always tricky when you have to play someone that you know and like and also that you’re playing doubles with,” Pegula, 31, said.<\/p>\n
“That part was just unfortunate because we obviously want to see each other do well separately – but not when we have to play each other.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessica Pegula admitted it “sucked” and Lorenzo Musetti said it “was not easy to deal with” – but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-422519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}