Pegula comes from a break down in third set to make US Open semifinal return
Jessica Pegula didn't have her best stuff Tuesday night in New York -- especially on serve -- but she did what she usually does and found a way through.
The No. 3 seed rallied from a set down to defeat No. 26 seed Emma Navarro 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 in 2 hours and 21 minutes inside a packed Arthur Ashe Stadium, advancing to the US Open semifinals for the third straight year.
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"It was really tough. It was physical. It was humid. I wasn't exactly serving my best, and I was fighting a lot of demons out there today," Pegula said in her on-court interview. "So thank you guys so much for coming out here. It's an honor to play in front of you guys. There's nothing like it."
It's Pegula's fourth Grand Slam semifinal overall; she also reached the last four at the Australian Open earlier this year.
The US Open 2024 runner-up improves to 5-0 against Navarro, with three of those wins coming in three sets. Pegula owns the most three-set wins (90) and comeback wins (48) of any WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz player since the start of the decade.
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