By Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Photo Credit: Wuhan Open/CVG
Bursting in a tremendous noise, Jessica Pegula There was a cause for celebration in Wuhan today.
Open finalist of the 2024 US Open converted its seventh point of the match eventually undergoing a determined Hailey baptiste In a “wild journey” that without Pegula predominated 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (6) in a two-hour, 55-minute punitive epic in Wuhan Open.
The sixth Pigula with the sixth seed served for the match at 5-2 and again at 5-4 just to see the Baptist excavate with a defiance and fight two game points in the eighth and three other matches in the 10th match, breaking back to the 5th level.
Serving at 5-6, Pegula was held at 15 to force decisive tiebreaker.
Pegula was sitting 4-5 at the switch, but returned. Baptiste saved another match point in 5-6 before Pegula finally sealed one of her most difficult victories of the season.
Photo Credit: Wuhan Open/CVG
“It’s been brutal,” Pegula said. “The points of the match, then she started playing well. I think I just got a little rehearsal. And that’s all that someone should ever come back.
“I’m really proud of myself for the way I kept it together because I think I could easily collapse. But I was harshly, so yes, it was a wild trip.”
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The seventh rank will try to keep the journey against Ekaterina Alexandrova.
Alexandrova with ninth money defeated American Ann Li 7-6 (5), 6-2.
