{"id":75992,"date":"2025-08-12T01:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/75992\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T01:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:22:12","slug":"jessica-pegula-shares-when-shes-considering-retiring-from-tennis-and-says-coco-gauff-was-mad-when-she-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/75992\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Pegula shares when she’s considering retiring from tennis and says Coco Gauff was ‘mad’ when she heard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jessica Pegula is continuing her busy season at the Cincinnati Open, where she is now into the third round.<\/p>\n

Pegula lost her second match at the Canadian Open<\/a> earlier this month, but is now back to winning ways at the Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n

The American defeated Australian Kimberly Birrell 6-4, 6-3 in the second round of the WTA<\/a> 1000 tournament, having received a bye in round one.<\/p>\n

Fourth seed Pegula<\/a>, currently ranked fourth in the world, now takes on 31st seed\u200b\u200b Magda Linette in the third round.<\/p>\n

She is using the tournament as preparation for the US Open, a tournament in which she reached the final in 2024.<\/p>\n

\"JessicaPhoto by Robert Prange\/Getty ImagesJessica Pegula shares when she could retire from tennis<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old will be aiming for another lengthy run this time around, although she has been involved in retirement talk on the Tennis Insider Club.<\/p>\n

When asked if she sees her tennis career going on much longer, Pegula replied: \u201cYeah, I think the one year [2024] I definitely felt burnt out.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Annoyed Jessica Pegula says she does not like what is happening to her tennis right now, \u2018it really bothers me\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThis year has been much better, I am more excited to travel. I\u2019m not jumping up and down to travel but I\u2019m appreciating being in Madrid, thinking it\u2019s a nice city, I didn\u2019t get to come here last year as I was hurt and I kind of miss it.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I think this year I feel really good. I honestly feel like it\u2019s a year-to-year thing. I don\u2019t think you can get ahead of yourself.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like do I feel healthy? Do I feel good this year? Do I feel I can still compete at a high level? Then yeah, I will keep playing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will definitely not be playing at 35. I think that is where I for sure have to stop. I think it would be cool to maybe try and make the Olympics because it\u2019s in LA in a couple of years.\u201d<\/p>\n

How Jessica Pegula\u2019s retirement thoughts left Coco Gauff \u2018mad\u2019<\/p>\n

The Olympic Games make their way to Los Angeles in 2028, but it remains to be seen if Pegula will still be competing by then.<\/p>\n

She would, of course, receive huge support from the American fans, as would her compatriot Coco Gauff<\/a>.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Lindsay Davenport shares the \u2018hot take\u2019 she has about Jessica Pegula ahead of the US Open this year<\/a><\/p>\n

And Pegula referenced the world number three during her retirement discussion, with Gauff desperate for her fellow American to still be active when LA 2028 arrives.<\/p>\n

Pegula explained: \u201cI think I was talking to Coco and she was like you can play until LA. She was mad at me because I was like maybe a couple more years, and she was like if you\u2019re going to play two more years you might as well play another year for the LA Olympics.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was like you can\u2019t retire before then! This was like a year before, and I was like four years, that\u2019s a long time. I will be 34. What are you talking about?<\/p>\n

\"BNPPhoto by Robert Prange\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was like you can just stay top 20, with the way you hit the ball you will be fine. I am not letting you retire before the LA Olympics, especially if I\u2019m qualified!<\/p>\n

\u201cI was like you won\u2019t even be 25 yet, you still can\u2019t rent a car! And I think if you want to have kids you can\u2019t wait that long.<\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely don\u2019t want to have kids and then come back. I think when I have a kid, I\u2019m done. I admire the women that do that, but that is just not [for me].\u201d<\/p>\n

Such women truly deserve the utmost respect for returning to tennis after having children, many of whom have gone on to really impress.<\/p>\n

The likes of Serena Williams, Petra Kvitova, Naomi Osaka, Kim Clijsters, Belinda Bencic and many more belong in that admirable category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessica Pegula is continuing her busy season at the Cincinnati Open, where she is now into the third…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[5113,23004,99,428,654],"class_list":{"0":"post-75992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-coco-gauff","9":"tag-jessica-pegula","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75992","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=75992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}