BERLIN — Jessica Pegula saved five match points before beating Anna Kalinskaya 6-7 (0), 6-4, 7-6 (3) in the final of the Berlin Ladies Open on Sunday.
“I played some really good tennis this week and I feel like I beat some really good girls, especially on grass," the American said after her first WTA title this year and fifth of her career. “To be able to gut out a win like that is cool.”
It was also Pegula's first career title on grass.
Pegula earlier Sunday resumed her suspended semifinal match against top-seeded Coco Gauff to win four of five points and prevail 7-5, 7-6 (2). Rain had interrupted the second-set tiebreaker on Saturday.
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