By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Monday, March 27, 2023
MIAMI—Jessica Pegula is expert within the artwork of level building.
When her enjoying days are completed, the world No. 3 goals of constructing one thing even larger.
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Pegula, whose mother and father Terry Pegula and Kim Pegula, are the house owners of the NFL’s Buffalo Bills and the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres, stated she’d wish to personal and function a tennis event after her tennis profession is over.
Speaking to the media in Miami after she defeated Twentieth-seeded Magda Linette 6-1, 7-5 to energy into the Miami Open quarterfinals, Pegula shared her plan. Since the beginning of 2020, Pegula has reached 12 WTA 1000 quarterfinals—most of any girl in that span.
“I would love to have one there [in Buffalo],” Pegula advised the media in Miami at this time. “I don’t know where because Buffalo isn’t really a tennis haven. But maybe one day. I think that’s always been something I’ve thought about, even after my career, is having a tournament.
“I feel that may be actually enjoyable. I do not suppose my mother and father are actually up for it, however perhaps sooner or later I’ll have one or attempt to get one thing going there.”
While winters in Buffalo can look like a real-life snow globe come to life, the city does have a tennis tradition.
Former world No. 5 Jimmy Arias is a Buffalo native who was inducted into the Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame the same year as legendary NBA star Bob McAdoo, a devoted tennis fan and tennis parent who was roaming the Miami Open grounds earlier this week.
Pegula said she hopes to one day bring a tournament to western New York. Novak Djokovic’s family previously owned and operated an ATP event in Belgrade and we’ve seen several former stars become tournament directors after their playing days ended, including James Blake (Miami), Richard Krajicek (Rotterdam), Feliciano Lopez (Madrid) and Tommy Haas (Indian Wells).
“I feel it might be actually enjoyable additionally making the reference to Toronto, Montreal, clearly Toronto being proper there,” Pegula said. “I do know we alternate with the lads, but it surely’s so shut. I do not suppose individuals understand how shut it’s. It’s like an hour-and-a-half drive.
“Yeah, that would be cool because I had a lot of fans in Toronto that were either people from Buffalo or associated with Buffalo just because of the proximity. So maybe one day.”
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