How Pegula Covered Over 50,000 Miles Traveling To Tournaments In 2023

| by Nurein Ahmed

Jessica Pegula's mileage between tournaments is among the highest by any WTA player in 2023, and she averaged one match every 2.29 days.

Pegula's 2023 campaign began even before the turn of the new year, when she played her first match at the United Cup on December 30, 2022. Pegula's season which ended on November 6, 2023, lasted an incredible 311 days.

She played 136 matches across all levels, which is the most on the WTA tour in 2023, ranging from singles, doubles, and mixed doubles. The interesting part is that she played in the first match and last possible match of the WTA season.

Pegula opened play at the United Cup with a defeat to Petra Kvitova, but that didn't prevent the United States from winning the inaugural mixed-gender team competition. Of the 136 matches she played last season, Pegula won 76 in singles with a win rate of 76.6%.

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The American won two titles in singles, one at the WTA 1000 in Montreal (her second at that level) and the other in her mother's birth city in Seoul, South Korea. Even though she lost her place as USA's top-ranked woman to Coco Gauff, she cemented her place in the Top 5 at the end of the season.

Pegula also played in the last WTA match of 2023, where she brutally lost to Iga Swiatek in the final season-ending championships in Cancun, Mexico. Her record in doubles wasn't shabby either, playing 48 matches partnering Gauff (attaining a 72.92% win rate and winning two titles).

In mixed doubles, Pegula played 11 matches - four times at the United Cup and most memorably when she was a runner-up at the 2023 US Open alongside men's doubles No. 1 Austin Krajicek.

Overall, she accumulated approximately 50,000 miles in travel distance (over 80,000 km) and was, without doubt, the most traveled on tour.

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