Jessica Pegula's Incredible Journey to the US Open Semifinals। USA TODAY NEWS

[Music] Jessica pegula wasn't sure whether some of the significant adjustments she made in an attempt to improve her performance would ultimately be successful when she was having trouble earlier this year however those questions have been resolved at the US Open this year not only is pegula playing the greatest tennis of her life but she's Advanced deeper in a grand slam match than in the past pass and has a genuine chance of winning the trophy on Wednesday pegula 30 the daughter of Terry and Kim pegula of the Buffalo Bills defeated world number one igas swatek 6264 to advance to the US Open semi-finals pegula has made six efforts to reach the Grand Slam quarterfinals losing to swatek 6376 in the US Open 2 years ago this is pegula's first time breaking through however this is not the same pegula who had a poor Australian Open second round loss in February parted ways with longtime coach David wit due to a rib injury pegula was forced to skip this year's clay Court season when she did play she lost in the second round at Wimbledon and didn't seem to be a factor for the remainder of 202 after the Olympics however pegula regained her form winning the Canadian open and making it to the championship match the following week in Cincinnati when she faces karolina machova in the semifinals on Thursday she will have won 14 of her previous 15 games overall nevertheless pegala was seen as the underdog against suek the winner of the 2022 US Open before the match suek had a 6-3 advantage in their head-to-head battle on Wednesday however pegula was sharp Tac Al and confidently played both her forehand and backhand tennis from the off pegula seemed to hurry Suk with a strong flatball strike he never settled into a rhythm and committed unusual errors off routine ground stroke she made only 12 wins in her final 41 unintentional mistakes with just 22 faults and 65% of her first serves made pegula played a far cleaner match in the women's draw there is just one grand slam winner left in the final four two-time Australian Open Champion Arena sabalenka ranked second lost to Coco goof in the US Open final the previous year on Thursday she will play Emma novaro in America Pula the sixth seed will finish the US Open as the highest ranked American woman no matter what happens next in reference to her previous quarterfinal struggles Pula stated on ESPN a consistently lost but to exceptional players realize that questions about it always arise but I was at a loss for what to do all I had to do was return there and win the game at last I made declare that I'm a semi-finalist

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