{"id":226291,"date":"2023-10-16T00:10:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T18:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=226291"},"modified":"2023-10-16T00:10:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T18:40:24","slug":"pegula-beats-yuan-to-claim-korea-open-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/10\/16\/pegula-beats-yuan-to-claim-korea-open-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Pegula beats Yuan to claim Korea Open title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seoul, 15 Oct: Jessica Pegula beat Yuan Yue 6-2, 6-3 in the final of the Korea Open on Sunday for the fourth title of her career.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The top-seeded Pegula dropped only one set through the tournament and becomes the first American since Venus Williams in 2007 to win the title in Seoul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;My mom is Korean and she was adopted from here so it&#8217;s really special to be able to win here,&#8221; Pegula said. &#8220;In the last few years, as my ranking has gone up, I&#8217;ve definitely felt so much more support from the fans, a lot more than I expected coming back here from five years ago. So it&#8217;s really special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Playing in her first career final, 128th-ranked Yuan showed no signs of nerves and earned a break point in Pegula&#8217;s opening service game, which the American saved with a forehand winner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The world No. 4-ranked player then won eight consecutive games to take the first set and build a 3-0 lead in the second as a quick victory looked likely.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yuan then rallied to get back to 3-4 but Pegula&#8217;s power from the baseline propelled her to her first title since Montreal earlier this year and her first outside of North America. (AP)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul, 15 Oct: Jessica Pegula beat Yuan Yue 6-2, 6-3 in the final of the Korea Open on Sunday for the fourth title of her career. The top-seeded Pegula dropped only one set through the tournament and becomes the first American since Venus Williams in 2007 to win the title in Seoul. &#8220;My mom is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-226291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}