BAD HOMBURG, Germany — Prime-seeded Jessica Pegula beat five-time main champion Iga Swiatek 6-4, 7-5 on Saturday to win the grass-court Unhealthy Homburg Open, extending Swiatek’s year-long title drought.
Pegula clinched her third title of 2025 — with the others in Austin, Texas, and Charleston, South Carolina — and it was the ninth title of the 31-year-old American’s profession.
Swiatek was seeded fourth on the WTA 500 event in Germany, the place the 24-year-old Pole sought her first trophy because the 2024 French Open and a twenty third general.
Of their eleventh profession assembly, however first on grass, Pegula gained for the fifth time general. Pegula beat Swiatek within the quarterfinals ultimately 12 months’s U.S. Open, the place she completed runner-up.
Though Swiatek hit 9 aces in Saturday’s last, she additionally dropped her serve twice. Pegula saved the one break level she confronted and gained a increased proportion of factors on first and second serve.
The previous No.1-ranked Swiatek has gained 4 French Open titles and one U.S. Open, however has by no means been past the quarterfinals at Wimbledon.
Pegula has additionally by no means been previous the final eight at Wimbledon, the place play begins on Monday in London.
