Jessica Pegula Tops McCartney Kessler To Capture First WTA Title Of 2025
World number four Jessica Pegula powered to her first WTA title of 2025 on Sunday, beating McCartney Kessler 7-5, 6-2 in an all-American final in Austin, Texas. Pegula, the top seed, claimed a seventh WTA title and her first since she won the 1000 event in Toronto last year. That was one of Pegula's two titles in a 2024 campaign in which she also reached the US Open final. In Kessler she stopped a fast-rising talent, whose first two WTA finals had yielded a pair of titles -- in Cleveland last August and at Hobart in January.
