{"id":458036,"date":"2023-09-03T11:57:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T07:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458036"},"modified":"2023-09-03T11:57:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T07:57:35","slug":"brilliant-pegula-overwhelms-svitolina-to-progress-to-round-four","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/brilliant-pegula-overwhelms-svitolina-to-progress-to-round-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Pegula overwhelms Svitolina to progress to round four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Pegula defeated Elina Svitolina in an impressive fashion 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 at the third round of the US Open on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>It was a tightly-fought contest all along as No.26 seed Svitolina proved to be a stern test for the American.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jessica Pegula is heading to Round 4. \ud83c\udf1f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6SqphUS5J4\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6SqphUS5J4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; US Open Tennis (@usopen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen\/status\/1698088995329032442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The No.3 Pegula took the first, before the Ukrainian struck back in the second.<\/p>\n<p>It was even steven at 2-2 in the third set before Pegula broke her opponent before going on a 4-game winning streak, which put the match to bet.<\/p>\n<p>The victory sets up a mouth-watering 4th round match-up with fellow American Madison Keys, who eliminated No.14 Luidmila Samsonova.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time I practice with her, she just has the ability to just hit aces and rip forehands and backhands, play a really big power game,\u201d Pegula said. \u201cIt will be interesting to see how smart I can play and what I can do to combat that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Pegula defeated Elina Svitolina in an impressive fashion 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 at the third round of the US Open on Saturday night. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":458037,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20199,17133,17725,4051],"news_category":[16714,16715],"gn_keywords":[20355,21227,1891,2515],"acf":{"announce":"The American was on fire and will play compatriot Keys in the next match","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458038,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458036\/revisions\/458038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458036"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458036"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}