Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula play doubles routinely despite being top-ranked singles players. “They are the best thing in American doubles since the remarkable Bryan brothers,” marzoTennis writes.
and her partner, Jessica Pegula, are the outliers who play doubles routinely, at tournaments around the world, despite being top-ranked singles players—currently No. 6 and No. 3, respectively. They have been regularly partnering for a year now, and they are the best thing in American doubles since the remarkableretired from the tour, in 2020.
There wasn’t a seat to be had on Court 6 Monday afternoon, where they were playing a round-of-sixteen match against Japan’s Miyu Kato and Indonesia’s Aldila Sutjiadi, middle-of-the-pack doubles veterans who have been pairing up only since last spring and won a title together at the start of this year, in Auckland. Gauff and Pegula beat them comfortably in straight sets at the Australian Open, and were heavy favorites to win again. The weather was summery, the mood festive.
Things quieted down quickly enough when, to begin the match, Gauff failed to hold serve, missing a forehand, under no duress, on break point. Gauff and Pegula would break back in the fourth game, but Gauff was broken again in the following game.
Gauff and Pegula moved better and made better decisions, Pegula especially, in the second set, which was every bit as tight as the first: 6–4, Gauff-Pegula. The ten-point tiebreak that followed was excruciatingly close, or deliciously close, depending on which of the fans in earshot was emitting what sound. Gauff and Pegula earned the first match point, at 9–8, with Gauff returning; she sent a backhand return a mile long.
than Kato and Sutjiadi, out of a hundred and forty, but that’s tennis. There would be singles matches for both of them the next day. ♦
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