American fourth seed Jessica Pegula despatched a warning shot to her rivals forward of the U.S. Open as she romped to a 6-1 6-0 victory over Liudmila Samsonova within the Canadian Open last on Sunday in Montreal for her first title of the season.
While Pegula performed lights-out tennis from the beginning she additionally had an edge given Samsonova needed to play the match about two hours after upsetting third seed Elena Rybakina in a rain-postponed semi-final conflict meant to be performed on Saturday.
“It’s tough, it sucks, I feel bad that we weren’t able to play on a more fair playing ground,” Pegula mentioned after securing her second WTA 1000 title.
Pegula, who beat doubles accomplice Coco Gauff and world primary Iga Swiatek on the best way to the ultimate, was clearly the extra rested of the 2 gamers and it didn’t take lengthy for the unlucky scheduling to point out its affect.
The top-ranked American gained a outstanding 100% of her first-serve factors, broke Samsonova 5 occasions and by no means confronted a break level whereas wrapping up the one-sided victory in 49 minutes.
Pegula was in management all through as she went up a double break earlier than closing out the primary set on her serve and confronted no resistance from Samsonova within the second body.
Pegula was effectively conscious of the sting she carried into the match and made certain to credit score the Russian fifteenth seed, whose path to the ultimate additionally included a win over reigning Australian Open champion and world quantity two Aryna Sabalenka.
“She had some amazing, two top-10 wins beating two girls that are some of the best players in world, top five right now, and wining Grand Slams,” mentioned Pegula.
“To me, she should be a top-10 player, hopefully she gets there and she’s had great results. So kudos to her and I feel bad that it wasn’t the way it should have been but I guess that’s just the way it goes sometimes.”