{"id":102059,"date":"2025-07-29T12:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/102059\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T12:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:36:10","slug":"jessica-pegula-admits-shes-unsure-over-change-which-the-canadian-open-has-made-this-year-as-tournament-gets-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/102059\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Pegula admits she’s unsure over change which the Canadian Open has made this year as tournament gets underway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jessica Pegula is looking to bounce back at the Canadian Open after being shocked in the American capital.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The world number three went into the Washington Open<\/a> as the number one seed. However, she was stunned by eventual champion Leylah Fernandez in the quarter-final, losing in three sets.<\/p>\n

The defending Canadian Open champion has had a difficult month on the WTA Tour. After the high of winning in Bad Homburg, Pegula was dumped out of Wimbledon in the first round before exiting early in Washington.<\/p>\n

The Canadian Open has adopted an expanded format for this year\u2019s event, which now has a 96-player main draw taking place over 12 days.<\/p>\n

Pegula, who is one high-profile name not to have withdrawn from the event<\/a>, offered her thoughts on the new format ahead of her first match in Canada.<\/p>\n

\"JessicaPhoto by Robert Prange\/Getty ImagesJessica Pegula says she is \u2018not sure\u2019 about the expanded format<\/p>\n

Speaking at her pre-tournament press conference, Pegula said: \u201cI kind of like it smaller. I kind of like when it\u2019s quicker. I feel like you can just kind of go and, like, get it over with.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like sometimes when they\u2019re really long, it can seem really long, especially leading up to a slam.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019m interested. I think this format a little bit different. It\u2019s not quite two weeks for each tournament, right? It\u2019s like, 21 days, pushed together within 21 days.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I think it\u2019s a little bit of a hybrid between what we\u2019ve seen where, like, Madrid and Rome, or Indian Wells, Miami, and then obviously longer, though, than just having one week to finish everything. So I\u2019m honestly just more interested to see how it kind of turns out and how it feels for the players and for the fans as well, because I think it\u2019s kind of like meeting in the middle a little bit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not a fan of when they\u2019re like two weeks long. It\u2019s just, it can get really tough. I feel like slams are two weeks and so now I\u2019m turning everything almost like into a slam is really mentally draining.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019m hoping that these two events feel like a good kind of middle ground, I guess I could say. So I\u2019m not sure. It\u2019s the first time we\u2019ve done it, and I think we\u2019re all going to have to get used to it, but I guess we\u2019ll see how it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jessica Pegula faces Maria Sakkari in the Canadian Open second round<\/p>\n

Jessica Pegula faces a tough test in the second round of the Canadian Open. The third seed faces Maria Sakkari, who defeated Carson Branstine 6-2 3-6 7-5. <\/p>\n

Sakkari, 30, is ranked 72 in the world. However, she reached as high as world number three in March 2022.<\/p>\n

\"MariaPhoto by Minas Panagiotakis\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Greek player has also reached the semi-final stage at two Grand Slam tournaments. In 2021, she made the semi-finals at both the French Open<\/a> and US Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Most recently, Sakkari reached the quarter-final stage of the Washington Open, before losing to Emma Raducanu<\/a> in straight sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessica Pegula is looking to bounce back at the Canadian Open after being shocked in the American capital.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":102060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[47618,21487,62,1464,67,132,68,48336],"class_list":{"0":"post-102059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-canadian-open","9":"tag-jessica-pegula","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-wta-tennis-players"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114936557434917975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}