Aryna Sabalenka beats Jessica Pegula to win U.S. Open girls’s title

Aryna Sabalenka, of Belarus, returns a shot to Jessica Pegula, of the US, throughout the girls’s singles closing of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, in New York.
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 Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka beat American sixth seed Jessica Pegula 7-5 7-5 within the U.S. Open girls’s closing on Saturday (September 7, 2024).

Sabalenka blocked out the wild cheers for the house hope on Arthur Ashe Stadium to interrupt Pegula within the closing sport and win her first title at Flushing Meadows.

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A yr after arising quick within the closing, the second seed fought again from a break down in each units to assert victory and fell to the court docket in her second of triumph.

The 30-year-old Pegula had waited a very long time to achieve her first main closing however couldn’t match her opponent’s uncooked energy regardless of the noisy backing of the New York crowd.

Sabalenka claimed her third Grand Slam title after profitable the Australian Open twice.

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