The 21st century
United States · born Buffalo, 1994 · twice Wimbledon quarter-finalist · Berlin and Bad Homburg champion
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Grass titles, Berlin 2024 and Bad Homburg 2025
QF
Best Wimbledon result, 2023 and 2026
5
Match points saved in the 2024 Berlin final
No. 3
Career-high singles ranking, October 2022
No. 1
Career-high doubles ranking, September 2023
Born in Buffalo, New York, on 24 February 1994, Pegula is the daughter of Terry and Kim Pegula, owners of the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres. Her rise came late: a first title in Washington in 2019 at 25, then a career-high singles ranking of No. 3 in October 2022 and No. 1 in doubles in September 2023, much of it in partnership with Coco Gauff. She won the Canadian Open in 2023 and 2024, reached the US Open final in 2024, losing to Aryna Sabalenka 7-5, 7-5, and led the United States to the first United Cup in 2023. In 2026 she reached the Berlin final and the Wimbledon quarter-finals.
| Wimbledon singles | First round 2019; second round 2021; third round 2022; quarter-final 2023; second round 2024; first round 2025; quarter-final 2026 |
|---|---|
| Wimbledon 2023 | Seeded 4th, she led Markéta Vondroušová 4-1 in the third set of the quarter-final and lost 4-6, 6-2, 4-6 to the eventual champion |
| Grass titles | Berlin 2024, beating Anna Kalinskaya 6-7 (0), 6-4, 7-6 (3); Bad Homburg 2025, beating Iga ÅšwiÄ…tek 6-4, 7-5 |
| Berlin 2026 | Seeded 3rd, she beat Kateřina Siniaková, Madison Keys and Aryna Sabalenka, then lost the final to Linda Nosková in three sets |
| Wimbledon 2026 | Seeded 4th, she won the first set of the quarter-final against Coco Gauff and lost 6-4, 3-6, 3-6 |
| Berlin | ||
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| 2024 | Women's singles | |
| Bad Homburg | ||
| 2025 | Women's singles | |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. †single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"To be able to gut out a win like that is cool."
The person behind the player.
Washington 2019
She won her first tour title at the Citi Open in Washington at 25 and celebrated with her mini Australian Shepherd, Maddie. Dogs have stayed close to her career: in 2018 she founded A Lending Paw, a nonprofit that connects rescued and trained service animals with people who need them.
Source: WikipediaWimbledon 2023 · No. 1 Court
She led Markéta Vondroušová 3-1 in the third set of the quarter-final when play was halted to close the No. 1 Court roof. She held serve on the restart to lead 4-1, then lost the last five games. Vondroušová, unseeded, went on to win the title.
Source: NBC SportsBerlin 2024
Back from a rib injury that cost her the clay season, she finished a suspended semi-final against Coco Gauff on Sunday morning, then played the final. Against Anna Kalinskaya she saved four championship points to hold for 5-5 in the third set and one more to reach the tie-break, which she won by taking the last five points.
Source: WTABad Homburg 2025
In their 11th meeting and the first on grass, the top seed beat Iga ÅšwiÄ…tek 6-4, 7-5 for her ninth title. ÅšwiÄ…tek took something from the week anyway: "This tournament shows there is hope for me on grass," she said.
Source: Fox SportsWimbledon 2025 · First round
Days after the Bad Homburg title, as third seed, she lost to the world No. 116 Elisabetta Cocciaretto 6-2, 6-3 in 58 minutes. She called it "definitely probably the worst result I've had all year", then found the upside: "Bonus is I can go prep for the hard courts."
Source: News4JAXWimbledon 2026 · Quarter-final
Her second Wimbledon quarter-final was against Coco Gauff, her friend and former doubles partner, with whom she had reached No. 1 in doubles. Pegula, the fourth seed, won the first set; Gauff, seeded seventh, won 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 to reach her first Wimbledon semi-final.
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