Jessica Pegula
WTA No. 3 · 7,265 ptsWTA official 28 Sep 2026Right-handed46 charted matches · 18 Jan 2024 to 23 Aug 2026
Ranking
No. 3
2025 year-end 6 · best 3 in 2022
Serve points won
60.4%
+1.2 pts vs US peers
Return points won
44.3%
−1.6 pts vs US peers
Charted record
30–16
DR 1.12 · 6,578 points charted
Ranking trajectory
year-end ranking, log scale · grey lines are the other fourServe profile
3,240 service points charted| Measure | Pegula | US women top 5 | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st serve in | 62.7% | 61.7% | |
| 1st serve points won | 66.8% | 66.4% | |
| 2nd serve points won | 49.7% | 48.1% | |
| Ace rate | 4.2% | 4.3% | 137 aces |
| Double fault rate | 2.7% | 5.2% | 86 double faults |
| Break points saved | 56.5% | 57.6% | 174 of 308 |
First serves in, by target
2,033 servesSecond serves in, by target
1,121 servesSeen from behind the server. Shading and the big figure are the share of serves into each third of the box; pills are points won and serve count. Green and red mark the best and worst zone with 25 or more serves.
Return and rally
3,334 return points · 74.2% of returns put in playPoints won by rally length
serve counts as shot one; double faults left outReturn depth
returns in play with a recorded depth17%
47%
36%
Shallow
394 returns · 51.0% won
Deep
1073 returns · 54.3% won
Very deep
839 returns · 59.6% won
Shallow lands inside the service line, deep in the front half of the backcourt, very deep in the back half. Won is the share of those return points the player went on to win.
Rally-shot direction
every charted forehand and backhand after the returnForehand
Backhand
Seen from behind Jessica. Arrow width and the white pill are that direction's share of the wing; the coloured pill is the share of points won when the shot was hit (green best, red worst, grey under 60 shots).
Surface splits
charted matches since Jan 2024| Surface | Matches | W–L | Serve won | Return won | DR | Service pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hard | 35 | 23–12 | 60.9% | 44.1% | 1.13 | 2,368 |
| Clay | 8 | 5–3 | 58.4% | 45.4% | 1.09 | 635 |
| Grass | 3 | 2–1 | 61.6% | 43.5% | 1.13 | 237 · small sample |
Recent charted matches · 12 of 46
newest first · each links to its Tennis Abstract chart| Date | Event | Rd | Opponent | Result | Serve won | Return won | Aces | DF | W / UE | Chart |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Aug 2026 | Cincinnati · Hard | F | Coco Gauff | L 2-6 4-6 | 48.3% | 39.6% | 0 | 1 | 12 / 18 | chart |
| 8 Aug 2026 | Toronto · Hard | R16 | Diana Shnaider | L 3-6 3-6 | 57.1% | 30.9% | 3 | 3 | 16 / 33 | chart |
| 6 Aug 2026 | Toronto · Hard | R32 | Kamilla Rakhimova | W 6-4 6-0 | 62.2% | 63.8% | 1 | 2 | 16 / 11 | chart |
| 29 Jun 2026 | Wimbledon · Grass | R128 | Darja Vidmanova | W 7-5 6-3 | 64.3% | 52.5% | 5 | 0 | 31 / 14 | chart |
| 26 Apr 2026 | Madrid · Clay | R32 | Marta Kostyuk | L 1-6 4-6 | 45.2% | 38.0% | 1 | 2 | 9 / 22 | chart |
| 4 Apr 2026 | Charleston · Clay | SF | Iva Jovic | W 6-4 5-7 6-3 | 62.7% | 41.7% | 1 | 3 | 28 / 32 | chart |
| 12 Mar 2026 | Indian Wells · Hard | QF | Elena Rybakina | L 1-6 6-7 | 63.2% | 34.6% | 6 | 0 | 17 / 13 | chart |
| 18 Feb 2026 | Dubai · Hard | R16 | Iva Jovic | W 6-4 6-2 | 77.1% | 40.7% | 5 | 1 | 15 / 14 | chart |
| 29 Jan 2026 | Australian Open · Hard | SF | Elena Rybakina | L 3-6 6-7 | 52.6% | 38.4% | 2 | 0 | 12 / 9 | chart |
| 27 Jan 2026 | Australian Open · Hard | QF | Amanda Anisimova | W 6-2 7-6 | 67.7% | 49.3% | 6 | 2 | 19 / 10 | chart |
| 26 Jan 2026 | Australian Open · Hard | R16 | Madison Keys | W 6-3 6-4 | 60.6% | 49.2% | 2 | 1 | 13 / 15 | chart |
| 22 Jan 2026 | Australian Open · Hard | R64 | Mccartney Kessler | W 6-0 6-2 | 70.0% | 64.1% | 0 | 0 | 17 / 9 | chart |
Glossary
- Charted matches
- · matches of this player coded point by point for the Match Charting Project since 1 Jan 2024; a volunteer-chosen sample, heavier on big events
- vs US peers
- · difference from the other four top US women, pooled over their charted points (serve 59.2%, return 45.9%)
- US top 5
- · the five players in this tour group including this one, pooled
- 2nd serve points won
- · points won after a missed first serve, double faults counted as lost
- Serve target
- · the chart's serve direction code (wide, body, T) on the deuce or ad side, taken from the score before the point
- Rally length
- · serve plus every shot that landed in; the error that ends a point is not counted
- Rally-shot direction
- · the project's own crosscourt / middle / down-the-line / inside-out / inside-in classification of rally forehands and backhands
- Result, unfinished
- · set scores rebuilt from the point log; a chart that stops early (retirement or partial chart) shows no result and is left out of W–L
- DR
- · dominance ratio: return points won divided by serve points lost