{"id":12303,"date":"2026-04-06T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=12303"},"modified":"2026-04-06T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:12:00","slug":"jessica-pegula-retains-charleston-open-for-second-trophy-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=12303","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Pegula retains Charleston Open for second trophy of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Top seed Jessica Pegula retained her Charleston Open title with a comfortable victory against first-time finalist Yuliia Starodubtseva.<\/b><\/p>\n

The American defeated her unseeded opponent 6-2 6-2 for her second title of the year, following her triumph in the Dubai Tennis Championships in February.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old, who won four consecutive three-set matches to reach the final, also had to dig deep at times against Starodubtseva as she saved seven out of eight break points to seal an emphatic win. <\/p>\n

It was the 24th victory of her successful season and moves Pegula ahead of world number one Aryna Sabalenka at the top of the WTA wins leaderboard.<\/p>\n

“Thank you to the fans who supported me throughout the whole week,” said Pegula. <\/p>\n

“There were many three-set matches. It’s been such a long week for me, and you guys brought me through so many matches every single day. So thank you so much – I love playing here.”<\/p>\n

Starodubtseva cruised into her maiden final but struggled against the world number five as she produced 41 unforced errors. <\/p>\n

The Ukrainian’s run in South Carolina did however mean she climbed 36 ranks to reach a career-best 53.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Top seed Jessica Pegula retained her Charleston Open title with a comfortable victory against first-time finalist Yuliia Starodubtseva. The American defeated her unseeded opponent 6-2 6-2 for her second title of the year, following her triumph in the Dubai Tennis Championships in February. The 32-year-old, who won four consecutive three-set matches to reach the final,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}