Although Jessica Pegula didn’t stroll away from Arthur Ashe Stadium with the U.S. Open trophy in hand, her husband’s day was gained 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 through the Olympics, the place Curry gained his first Olympic medal — gold — with the U.S. males’s basketball staff.
The couple sat behind on the baselines and had the prospect to talk extra with Pegula earlier than the match, and in a while, the American’s husband, Taylor Gahagan, obtained to satisfy his hero.
“My husband, his iPhone title is Steph Curry, as a result of he loves Steph Curry,” Pegula stated, in response to the Related Press. “Should you hook up with Bluetooth or ship him one thing or AirDrop, it’s ‘Steph Curry’s iPhone.’ So I sort of left early and he texted me and he was so excited. He didn’t wish to say something. I used to be like, ‘Please inform me you didn’t inform him concerning the iPhone factor.’ He’s like, ‘Oh, yeah, I did.’”
“I assumed that was actually cute,” Pegula added. “He was like, ‘No, he cherished it.’ I used to be like, ‘Did he? Or did he actually suppose you had been sort 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 homeowners Terry and Kim Pegula — of their sports activities and leisure administration firm for almost a decade, in response to Individuals.
Presently, Gahagen serves because the vp of his spouse’s skincare model, Prepared 24, and assists Pegula in operating her charitable basis, A Lending Paw.
It was a lightweight, humorous second to assist clear any disappointment for Pegula after dropping what was the world No. 6’s first grand slam remaining look.
Sabalenka was the favourite going into the 12 months’s remaining grand slam in Flushing and the Belarusian participant was out for revenge after dropping the ladies’s remaining in 2023 to Coco Gauff.
Sabalenka obtained off to a scorching begin, profitable 5 consecutive video games to seize the primary set.
Nonetheless, that didn’t totally deter Pegula, who obtained as much as a 3-0 lead within the remaining set and later held it at 5-3, trying promising to drive a 3rd set.
However Sabalenka composed herself and was capable of rally for the win.
