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Sports News | Pegula Beats Swiatek on Grass to Win Bad Homburg Title in Wimbledon Tune-up
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Bad Homburg (Germany), Jun 28 (AP) Top-seeded Jessica Pegula beat five-time major champion Iga Swiatek 6-4, 7-5 on Saturday to win the grass-court Bad Homburg Open, extending Swiatek's year-long title drought. Pegula clinched her third title of 2025 — with the others in Austin, Texas, and Charleston, South Carolina — and it was the ninth title of the 31-year-old American's career. Also Read | India Women’s Hockey Team Suffers 0-3 Defeat Against China in FIH Hockey Pro League 2024-25. Swiatek was seeded fourth at the WTA 500 tournament in Germany, where the 24-year-old Pole sought her first trophy since the 2024 French Open and a 23rd overall. In their 11th career meeting, but first on grass, Pegula won for the fifth time overall. Pegula beat Swiatek in the quarterfinals at last year's U.S. Open, where she finished the runner-up. Also Read | Harmanpreet Kaur Misses Out Due to Injury, Smriti Mandhana Leading India Women's Cricket Team During IND-W vs ENG-W 1st T20I 2025. Although Swiatek hit nine aces in Saturday's final, she also dropped her serve twice. Pegula saved the only break point she faced and won a higher percentage of points on first and second serve. The former No.1-ranked Swiatek has won four French Open titles and one U.S. Open, but has never been beyond the quarterfinals at Wimbledon. Pegula has also never been past the last eight at Wimbledon, where plays starts on Monday in London. (AP) (This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)
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