Jessica Pegula has qualified for her second Berlin Open final in three years.
In a rain-hit semi-final match, Pegula maintained her composure to defeat Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 6-7, 6-0.
Remarkably, Pegula won 20 of the final 27 points to close out the match.
The American will now play Linda Noskova in Sunday’s Berlin Open final.
Which Grand Slam is Jessica Pegula most likely to win?
Two years ago, Pegula became the seventh American to win the Berlin title when she defeated Anna Kalinskaya in the 2024 final.
With Pegula’s prior Berlin Open success noted… who are the six other triumphant Americans?
Mary Joe Fernandez
Fernandez, of Miami, Florida, became the sixth American woman to win the Berlin Open when she triumphed against Mary Pierce in the 1997 final.
Fernandez comfortably defeated the 2000 French Open champion, winning 6-4, 6-2 in the German capital.
The American star, widely considered to be one of the best players in history to have never won a Grand Slam singles title, also defeated Lindsay Davenport and Jana Novotna en route to the title.
Fernandez did not return to the Berlin Open final after 1997, making her final appearance at the event in 1999.
Chris Evert
Chris Evert is one of only two players in American history to have won the Berlin Open title on more than one occasion.
Evert, an 18-time major singles champion, defeated compatriot Kathleen Horvath 6–4, 7–6 to win her first title in 1983.
Two years later, the American superstar returned to the final, and she beat German tennis legend Steffi Graf.
Evert beat the 22-time Grand Slam champion 6–4, 7–5, capturing her 136th title on the professional circuit.
“Even when I played against her [Graf] for the first time three months ago, I could see she can become a great player,’ Evert said afterwards, as per UPI.
Caroline Stoll
Stoll, the former world number 15, captured her one and only Berlin Open title in May 1979.
The American, who never advanced past the third round of a Grand Slam, defeated Regina Marsikova 7–6, 6–0 to win the German title.
It would end up being Stoll’s final professional title before retirement in 1981.
Throughout the course of her career, Stoll also won titles in Montreal, Ogden, Fort Lauderdale, and Buenos Aires.
Laura duPont
Two years prior to Stoll’s triumph, Laura duPont added her name to the Queen’s Club list of champions.
DuPont, who was born in Louisville, Kentucky, defeated German player Heidi Eisterlehner 6-1, 6-4 in the final.
The American went on to win five professional titles in total, the last being at the 1982 Hong Kong Open.
DuPont retired from her playing career in the early 1980s.
Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King is one of the most iconic figures in the history of tennis; an individual who paved the way for equal pay across the sexes and established the Women’s Tennis Association in 1973.
King, a 39-time major champion across all formats, won the Berlin Open title in 1971.
The American icon defeated German player Helga Masthoff, winning 6-3, 6-2.
Masthoff went on to bounce back emphatically, winning the next three editions of the event.
Dorothy Head
Head is the only American woman in Berlin Open history to have won three editions of the tournament.
She won her first title in 1950, beating German Ursula Heidtmann in the final.
Head won her second title two years later, beating another German – Erika Vollmer – in the championships match.
In 1953, the American – then known as Dorothy Knode – beat Great Britain’s Joy Moltram 6–0, 4–6, 6–4 to win her third Berlin Open crown.
The two-time Roland Garros finalist went on to win 89 career titles and achieve a career-high ranking of world number five.
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