By Richard Pagliaro | Thursday, September 4, 2025
Photo Credit: Sarah Stier/Getty
New York – Prominent Stress as Sabalenka Skewered a mesh stroke at the point of match.
On this night, Sabalenka threw the hammer in anxiety with a nausea nearby.
Kingdom Champion Sabalenka destroyed a first money winner at her third point of match fighting in her third direct US final with a 4-6, 6-3 win Jessica Pegula.
“I had to really work hard to win this victory,” Sabalenka said. “I am very happy to be in the finals again and I hope I can go back all the way.”
This high quality semifinal was the match of the US 2024 open final, which Sabalenka won 7-5, 7-5, and proved that it was a great continuation.
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Breaking the service to start the decision maker tonight, Sabalenka saw Pegula’s strong stamp four successive love that holds the gap in 4-5.
Under the closed roof Arthur Ashe Stadium, Sabalenka rose in Stress and 23,000 pro-Pegula fans shouting support to fight in its seventh Grand Slam final.
Continuing her attempt to become the first woman to win successive Singles Open titles of Serena Williams from 2012-2014, Sabalenka will face either Amanda Animova or Naomi Osaka in Saturday at 4am with a record $ 5 million record record.
“I just prayed inside and hoped for the best,” Sabalenka said of her close last game. “It means a lot. I will go there on Saturday and fight for every point as the last point of my life.”
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On this night, Pegula produced a tennis level that would probably have beaten most women in the world, but Sabalenka is a special talent.
“I thought it was really high level. I really don’t know what to say else,” said Pegula, who converted two of the seven chances of the resting point. “I don’t know how I didn’t return to the third.
“I thought I played some really good points to win the first. She raised her level, she started serving much better in the second. Then I felt like she was really in the third. As, it didn’t change. I felt like we were both serving quite well.
“She came up with some funny shots, like at the point of rest. As, I didn’t feel like I was very wrong. So, yes, it seemed as if the level was really high, and we were pushing each other every single game.”
At first, Sabalenka was checking the court center, but Pegula completely overturned the script in the middle of the road through the opening group.
Riping a first return of the return down line, Sabalenka destroyed an internal first winner in the open court drawing first blood for 4-2.
This was a prelude to Pegula choosing Belarus with big strokes with a four -game run.
Drainage errors from the high seed, Pegula returned to the seventh match into a double fault Sabalenka, grabbing the sample bar of 32 consecutive rhythms dating back to the second round.
Two games later, Pegula burned Sabalenka with a backward pass followed by a shaky volleyball advanced for the resting point.
An anxious sabalenk sent a foreword beyond the initial base, and Pegula marked her second right rest for 5-4 by promoting a noise from the crowd that included Al Roker, Robin Roberts, Karl Anthony Towns and Ludacris.
A smart shot shot and pressing Forehand under the line gave Pegula Triple Set Point.
The 31-year-old American sealed her second direct love to grab the 36-minute opening in a four-game run. Pegula played cleaner combinations and did not make a mistake during its four -match growth to close the set.
It was the 11th direct set Pegula won on the tour and she did it with a safe service. Pegula served 77 percent and won 17 of the first service points by receiving a group from Sabalenka for the first time since its 6-4, 6-3 victory in the 2023 WTA final.
The winner of the opening group had won all the previous nine meetings between the party.
Talking her index finger at her temple in a physical expression of “play the smarter”, Sabalenka did exactly to start the second set.
The reign champion was called to its drives, served with more command, and split into Pegula’s opening game, capturing 3-0 lead.
Painting the upper side with its fifth acen, Sabalenka had won 13 of its last points in the service that extends its second lead to 5-2.
At its third point, Sabalenka gripped a service in the hip and Pegula’s backward return and settled on its side while the champion forced a final set after 77 minutes.
The fourth seed grew by 30-15 to start the third set before Sabalenka punished a second 73 km per hour with pure contempt for the resting point. Pegula sent a long time and Sabalenka had a break. Sabalenka was consolidated in love for 2-0.
Below 15-30 in the fourth match, Sabalenka slammed her seventh acen and followed with two sharp service winners extending to 3-1.
In the sixth match, Pegula tightened the screws in the Sabalenka service game by winning three resting points. Sabalenka resisted that pressure by saving all three rest points and responding with a strong blow and a rocket that serves 4-2.
Beyond the net, Pegula was intangible to serve 16 straight points in the service while it held for 4-5.
However, whenever Pegula suppressed the sample in the service, Sabalenka gave authoritarian answers.
“She will go out and I was hitting some good returns and she would explode the first ball
The winners, literally some of them on the line, I don’t know what to do for this, ”Pegula said.
“Too very good. So plays. She plays really without fear.
“This works for it. I don’t think I play like that. I don’t think some other players play like that.
But, yes, it was very good from it today at some points. “
At her first point of match, Sabalenka back, settled for a strong blow and in a miss Miss Miss scored it. Trying to attack the American, Sabalenka scored a low volleyball at the point of match no. 2.
All three Slam’s losses of Sabalenka this year were three-hearted losses to defined Americans-for Madison Keys in the Australian Open final, for Coco Gafff in Roland Garros Final and for Amanda Anisimova in Wimbledon’s semifinals this night Sabalenka refused to lose.
The sound of the crowd screaming in her ears did not prevent the Belarusinum that continued to pump first serves as she won a third point of the match.
This time, Sabalenka carved that finished blow.
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The woman who sports the tattoo tattoo on her forearm bowed and exploded in a primary roar of success.
After all, Sabalenka more than doubled the winner of Pegula Total – 43 to 21 – and earned exactly two more points (90 to 88) to boldly catch a thriller.
