{"id":86228,"date":"2025-07-01T11:31:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T15:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=86228"},"modified":"2025-07-01T11:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T15:31:40","slug":"jessica-pegula-suffers-shock-first-round-loss-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/07\/01\/jessica-pegula-suffers-shock-first-round-loss-at-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Pegula Suffers Shock First-Round Loss at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Third seed Jessica Pegula came into Wimbledon 2025 riding high after a title-winning run in Bad Homburg that included a win over world No. 1 Iga Swiatek. But her campaign at SW19 came to an abrupt and surprising end on Tuesday, as the American was knocked out in the first round by Italy\u2019s Elisabetta Cocciaretto, 6-2 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the biggest upsets of the opening round, Pegula never looked settled on Court 2. She struck just five winners to 24 unforced errors and was broken four times by Cocciaretto, who barely gave her any rhythm to work with. It marked Pegula\u2019s first opening-round loss at a Grand Slam in five years, and halted a streak of 17 straight first-round wins at the majors dating back to the 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/australian-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Australian Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After the match, Pegula didn\u2019t mince words. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely the worst result of the year,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/sport\/tennis\/article\/wimbledon-live-scores-results-latest-news-2025-day-2-jg0mpz3dh\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she admitted<\/a>. \u201cBut I know where I\u2019m at and what I\u2019ve been through, and I\u2019m not panicking about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a  id=\"vnlR_mI5Q-dOBNnxV6MmOA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2223044236\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'vnlR_mI5Q-dOBNnxV6MmOA',sig:'kwQM7toUhQghNUWua4225HCLNVdBx-j_240wXWBA9VY=',w:'594px',h:'403px',items:'2223044236',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Pegula\u2019s Wimbledon Track Record<\/h2>\n<p>While grass has traditionally been Pegula\u2019s least productive surface, she\u2019s had moments of promise at the All-England Club. Her best result came in 2023, when she reached the quarterfinals before falling to eventual finalist Marketa Vondrousova in a three-set battle.<\/p>\n<p>That run made Pegula just the fifth American woman this century to reach the quarterfinals at all four Majors, joining the likes of Serena and Venus Williams, Sloane Stephens, and Madison Keys. Her 2022 and 2024 appearances also saw her reach the third and second rounds, respectively, before this year\u2019s abrupt exit.<\/p>\n<h4>What\u2019s Next?<\/h4>\n<p>Despite the early loss, Pegula\u2019s form in Bad Homburg shows she\u2019s more than capable of a deep run on hard courts&#8211;where she has historically done her best work. With the North American summer swing fast approaching, she\u2019ll turn her attention to Montreal, Cincinnati, and the US Open, where she\u2019ll look to reset and reassert herself as one of the WTA\u2019s most consistent performers.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a disappointing end to her grass-court season, but if there\u2019s one thing Pegula has shown in recent years, it\u2019s resilience. Expect her to be back in contention soon.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Peter Van den Berg-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third seed Jessica Pegula came into Wimbledon 2025 riding high after a title-winning run in Bad Homburg that included a win over world No. 1 Iga Swiatek. But her campaign at SW19 came to an abrupt and surprising end on Tuesday, as the American was knocked out in the first round by Italy\u2019s Elisabetta Cocciaretto, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4590,"featured_media":57676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,6,4],"tags":[43062,43110,4315,3535,63,25,463,70],"class_list":["post-86228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-wimbledon","category-wta","tag-2025-wimbledon","tag-elizabetta-cocciaretto","tag-iga-swiatek","tag-jessica-pegula","tag-madison-keys","tag-serena-williams","tag-sloane-stephens","tag-venus-williams"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86228"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86241,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86228\/revisions\/86241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}