Jessica Pegula roared toward the crowd in excitement after her triumph at the 2022 French Open on Saturday May 28. The 28-year-old crushed Tamara Zidansek, a 2021 semifinalist at the competition, 6-1, 7-6 (2) and progressed to the fourth round at Roland Garros for the first time in her career.
“[I’m] definitely very happy to say that I’ve made [the] second week at [the] French Open,” Pegula, who was all but guaranteed to make her debut in the top 10 in the next rankings, told reporters after the match. “That’s something I don’t think a lot of people thought I could do.”
Jessica was only one of the few Americans who made it to the third round throughout the last few days.
Before her win, on Friday, Cori Gauff also made her subsequent straight fourth round at the competition with a straight-set prevail upon Kaia Kanepi.
Amanda Anisimova reached her most memorable round of 16 at a significant beginning since 2019, while Sloane Stephens, who had been winless in every one of the four of her lead-in matches on earth, made the second week in Paris for the eighth time in her career.
Madison Keys leaving an imprint for the American contingent with a legendary success over Elena Rybakina in a third-set tiebreak in the last match of the day on Saturday on Court Simonne-Mathieu.
It’s the first time since 2003, five American women have qualified to the round of 16 at the French Open.
Obviously that is just 50% of the story for the Americans in Paris.
There had been 10 Americans staying in the singles draws as the third round started off on Friday in Paris.
These women are proudly keeping America’s hopes alive at the ongoing 2022 French Open in Paris. Serena Williams was the last to succeed at the competition, and since her triumph in 2015, Stephens (2018) and Sofia Kenin (2020) have also both reached at the final, as did Williams in 2016.
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As the 2022 French Open has been ridiculously capricious, with No. 1 Iga Swiatek as the main top-10 seed remaining in the women’s draw, it seems more than plausible another American could join that list.
A suddenly resurgent Stephens, who won the US Open title in 2017, will face No. 23 Jil Teichmann on Sunday, and could meet Gauff, who takes on No. 31 seed Elise Mertens in the fourth round, in the quarterfinals.
Anisimova, who is in the other quarter of the bottom half of the draw, takes on 2021 US Open finalist Leylah Fernandez in a Gen Z clash, and could potentially face Stephens or Gauff in the semifinals. Pegula, who is in the other half of the draw, was impressed by what she had seen of both Gauff and Anisimova thus far.
In the mean time, Pegula will next face Irina-Camelia Begu on Monday May 30, and it could set up a likely standoff with Swiatek, the competition’s mind-boggling #1, in the quarterfinals. She is very confident about her possibilities going ahead.
