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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Dong-chan = Jessica Pegula (61th, USA) has entered the women’s singles round of 16 at the Australian Open tennis tournament (A$80 million in total prize money, about 68.9 billion won).
Pegula defeated Christina Mladenovic (52nd, France) 2-0 (6-2 6-1) in the 3rd round of women’s singles on the 6th day of the tournament held in Melbourne, Australia on the 13th.
Pegula, who first finished in the 16th round of singles in the major competitions, competed with Elina Svitolina (5th place, Ukraine) to advance to the quarterfinals.
Pegula’s mother, Kim Pegula, was adopted from Korea to the United States in 1974.
He now owns the NFL Buffalo Bills and the North American Ice Hockey League (NHL) Buffalo Sabers, along with her husband Terry Pegula, and is considered one of the most influential women of all American professional sports.
The Pegulahs are entrepreneurs in the natural gas, real estate, sports and entertainment businesses, and jointly ranked 129th in the list of the 400 richest people in the United States published by Forbes, a US economic magazine last year.
The Pegula couple’s net worth, as assessed by Forbes, is $5.1 billion (about 5.6 trillion won).
Pegula participated in the Women’s Professional Tennis (WTA) Tour Korea Open in Seoul in September 2019 and said, “I’m a half Korean,” and the Pegula couple visited Korea to see their daughter playing in Korea.
In particular, Pegula’s mother, Kim Pegula, became a hot topic because this was her first visit to Korea after adoption.
Pegula defeated Victoriya Azaranka (13th place, Belarus), one of the winners in the first round of the tournament, 2-0 (7-5 6-4), and in the second round, Samansa Stor, the 2011 US Open winner. Seo (112th place, Australia) was also lightly defeated 2-0 (6-0 6-1).
After winning the second round,’Go, Bills’ cheering for the parent-owned team on the TV camera. They also wrote down the phrase’Go, Bills. Go, Sabres’.
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Round of 16 opponent Svitolina is a strong player who climbed to the quarterfinals of Wimbledon and the US Open in 2019. In the Australian Open, the quarterfinals in 2018 and 2019 are the best singles.
Svitolina and Peguilla met once at the WTA Tour Abu Dhabi Open in January this year, and Svitolina won 2-0 (6-4 6-3).
In the match between Karolina Pliskova (6th place) and Karolina Mukhoba (27th place, Czech Republic), who had the same name as’Carolina’, Mukhoba won 2-0 (7-5 7-5).
Mujoba, the winner of the 2019 WTA Tour Korea Open, showed his potential to reverse from 0-5 in the 2-set game score to 7-5.
Mujoba will compete in the round of 16 with the winner of Belinda Benchch (12th place, Switzerland)-Eliser Mertons (16th place, Belgium).
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