Although Jessica Pegula didn’t stroll away from Arthur Ashe Stadium with the U.S. Open trophy in hand, her husband’s day was received because of Stephen Curry.
The 2-time MVP and four-time NBA champ and his spouse, Ayesha, had been in attendance at Arthur Ashe Stadium for the ladies’s remaining and noticed Pegula lose to No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka 7-5, 7-5 on Saturday night.
Pegula had beforehand met Curry in Paris throughout the Olympics, the place Curry received his first Olympic medal — gold — with the U.S. males’s basketball group.
The couple sat behind on the baselines and had the possibility to talk extra with Pegula earlier than the match, and in a while, the American’s husband, Taylor Gahagan, bought to satisfy his hero.
“My husband, his iPhone title is Steph Curry, as a result of he loves Steph Curry,” Pegula mentioned, in line with the Related Press. “When you connect with Bluetooth or ship him one thing or AirDrop, it’s ‘Steph Curry’s iPhone.’ So I form of left early and he texted me and he was so excited. He didn’t need to say something. I used to be like, ‘Please inform me you didn’t inform him in regards to the iPhone factor.’ He’s like, ‘Oh, yeah, I did.’”
“I believed that was actually cute,” Pegula added. “He was like, ‘No, he beloved it.’ I used to be like, ‘Did he? Or did he actually suppose you had been form of loopy?’ I suppose he thought it was fairly humorous.”
Gahagen, who tied the knot with the tennis star in 2021, previously labored for Pegula’s mother and father — Buffalo Payments house owners Terry and Kim Pegula — of their sports activities and leisure administration firm for practically a decade, in line with Individuals.
At the moment, Gahagen serves because the vp of his spouse’s skincare model, Prepared 24, and assists Pegula in working her charitable basis, A Lending Paw.
It was a lightweight, humorous second to assist clear any disappointment for Pegula after shedding what was the world No. 6’s first grand slam remaining look.
Sabalenka was the favourite going into the yr’s remaining grand slam in Flushing and the Belarusian participant was out for revenge after shedding the ladies’s remaining in 2023 to Coco Gauff.
Sabalenka bought off to a scorching begin, successful 5 consecutive video games to seize the primary set.
However, that didn’t totally deter Pegula, who bought as much as a 3-0 lead within the remaining set and later held it at 5-3, wanting promising to pressure a 3rd set.
However Sabalenka composed herself and was in a position to rally for the win.
