{"id":9723,"date":"2023-10-01T15:19:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T15:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/kudermetova-wins-pan-pacific-open-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-10-01T15:19:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T15:19:06","slug":"kudermetova-wins-pan-pacific-open-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/kudermetova-wins-pan-pacific-open-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudermetova wins Pan Pacific Open | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<strong class=\"location-names\"><br \/>\nTOKYO:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s Veronika Kudermetova won the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo on Sunday, upsetting tennis&#8217; world number four <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2430688\/pegula-thumps-samsonova-in-montreal-final\">Jessica Pegula<\/a> in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>The 19th-ranked Kudermetova overwhelmed the American 7-5, 6-1 in an hour and 24 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew it would be a tough final&#8230; I need to fight for every ball and today it worked really well,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m really happy that I managed to win my second title,&#8221; said the 26-year-old, who won her first WTA singles title in Charleston in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>She beat Pegula in three sets on the clay in Madrid this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I played better today than in Madrid,&#8221; Kudermetova said, adding that Pegula &#8220;always fights and plays solidly every match&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today I followed my game and my plan&#8221; to play aggressively, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Kudermetova had a tough semi-final, needing three hours and 25 minutes to defeat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.<\/p>\n<p>She stunned four-time Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek in the quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Pegula was aiming for her second title of the season following victory last month in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Kudermetova &#8220;put a lot of pressure on me at the beginning so it made it very tough&#8221;, the American said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Luckily I was able to get back to the first set but I just don&#8217;t think I was serving well enough&#8230; She was a better player today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old went into the US Open dreaming of a first ever Grand Slam title, but her campaign came to an abrupt halt as compatriot and close friend Madison Keys recorded a dominant win in just 61 minutes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v5.0&#038;appId=419051588770002&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Russia&#8217;s Veronika Kudermetova won the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo on Sunday, upsetting tennis&#8217; world number four Jessica Pegula in straight sets. The 19th-ranked Kudermetova overwhelmed the American 7-5, 6-1 in an hour and 24 minutes. &#8220;I knew it would be a tough final&#8230; I need to fight for every ball and today it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/i1696159376-1\/i1696159376-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}