{"id":1262,"date":"2023-10-15T16:04:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T13:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/1262\/jessica-pegula-wins-korea-open-fourth-career-wta-title\/"},"modified":"2023-10-15T16:04:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T13:04:08","slug":"jessica-pegula-wins-korea-open-fourth-career-wta-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=1262","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Pegula wins Korea Open for fourth career WTA title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Pegula wins Korea Open for fourth career WTA title\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEOUL \u2014 Jessica Pegula beat Yuan Yue 6-2, 6-3 in the Korean Open final on Sunday to win the fourth title of her career.<\/p>\n<p>Top-seeded Pegula lost just one set throughout the tournament and became the first American since Venus Williams in 2007 to win the title in Seoul.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mom is Korean and she was adopted here, so it\u2019s really special to be able to <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a> here,\u201d Pegula said.  \u201cOver the last few years, as my ranking has gone up, I&#8217;ve definitely felt a lot more support from the fans, a lot more than I expected when I came back here five years ago. &#8220;So it&#8217;s really special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Choice<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/1999\/hubert-hurkacz-victory-jessica-pegula-emotional-korea-open-nadal-returning-australian-open\/\"><\/a>Playing in her first career final, Yuan, 128th, showed no signs of nerves and earned a break point in Pegula&#8217;s first service game, which the American saved with a forehand winner.<\/p>\n<p>The world number 4 ranked player then won eight straight games to win the first set and take a 3-0 lead in the second as a quick victory looked likely.<\/p>\n<p>Yuan then rallied to get back to 3-4, but Pegula&#8217;s power from the baseline propelled her to her first title since Montreal earlier this year and her first outside of North America .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Pegula wins Korea Open for fourth career WTA title\u060c SEOUL \u2014 Jessica Pegula beat Yuan Yue 6-2, 6-3 in the Korean Open final on Sunday to win the fourth title of her career. Top-seeded Pegula lost just one set throughout the tournament and became the first American since Venus Williams in 2007 to win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[163,1544,1175,1543,64,1542,1201,1536,1545],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-career","tag-fourth","tag-jessica","tag-korea","tag-open","tag-pegula","tag-title","tag-wins","tag-wta"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}