{"id":634829,"date":"2026-05-10T13:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/634829\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T13:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:56:09","slug":"jessica-pegula-earns-double-bagel-win-at-italian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/634829\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Pegula earns double bagel win at Italian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jessica Pegula is cruising through her early rounds at the 2026 Italian Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After defeating Turkish rising star Zeynep Sonmez<\/a> 6-4, 6-0 in her Round of 64 match, she faced Swedish tennis player Rebeka Masarova.<\/p>\n

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She double bageled Masarova with a 6-0, 6-0 win in under an hour.<\/p>\n

MORE: Arthur Fils explains abrupt Italian Open retirement<\/a><\/p>\n

Pegula\u2019s most dominant win since 2023<\/p>\n

This is Pegula\u2019s most one-sided win since she defeated Liudmila Samsonova 6-0, 6-1, at the 2023 National Bank Open.<\/p>\n

Pegula won her second straight Charleston Open on the South Carolina green clay earlier this spring, cementing her status as a formidable clay court player.<\/p>\n

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Many consider Pegula one of the best players on the WTA Tour yet to win a Grand Slam. She has come close on the hardcourts at the US Open. There is a lot of tennis<\/a> yet to be played, but American fans hope that she (and her beloved Buffalo Sabres who also play in NHL playoff series on Sunday) continue to play well.<\/p>\n

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MORE: Sorana Cirstea stuns Aryna Sabalenka at Italian Open<\/a><\/p>\n

Pegula also playing doubles<\/p>\n

In addition to singles in Rome, Pegula will play doubles with Australian Storm Hunter.<\/p>\n

She has played sporadic doubles in recent years since formally breaking with friend and American compatriot Coco Gauff<\/a> after the Paris 2024 Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessica Pegula is cruising through her early rounds at the 2026 Italian Open. After defeating Turkish rising star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[274229,107726,1809,63067,23004,67266,99,428,108326],"class_list":["post-634829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-2023-national-bank-open","tag-arthur-fils","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-italian-open","tag-jessica-pegula","tag-liudmila-samsonova","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-zeynep-sonmez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634829","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=634829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}