Jessica Pegula becomes sixth player—and fourth American—to qualify for this year's WTA Finals

Jessica Pegula has become the sixth player to qualify for this year's WTA Finals in Riyadh, joining Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff, Amanda Anisimova and Madison Keys in the elite eight-player field.

She secured her spot by virtue of Friday's results in Wuhan—by winning her quarterfinal match against Katerina Siniakova, 2-6, 6-0, 6-3, and with Elena Rybakina falling to Sabalenka, she punched her ticket.

It's now down to three players for the last two spots in Riyadh—Mirra Andreeva, Jasmine Paolini and Rybakina, who are currently No. 7, No. 8 and No. 9 in the race with only a few hundred points separating them.

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Pegula's qualification comes on the heels of another strong year. She's won 49 matches so far this year, the third-most on the women's tour after Swiatek and Sabalenka, and three titles, tied for second-most on the women's tour with Swiatek (and trailing only Sabalenka's four).

The American has also achieved the unique feat of being the only woman this year to capture WTA titles on all three surfaces, with her triumphs in Austin, Texas in March (on hard courts), Charleston in April (on green clay) and Bad Homburg in June (on grass).

She's reached the quarterfinals or better 10 times this year and has been playing some of her best tennis of the season over the last month and a half, winning 12 of her last 14 matches to reach three consecutive semifinals at the US Open, Beijing and now Wuhan this week.

She's also spent the entire year in the No. 3-7 range (currently No. 6).

Pegula will be playing the WTA Finals for the fourth time in her career, her first three appearances coming in the last three years, falling in the round-robin stage in 2022 and 2024 but reaching one of the biggest finals of her career in 2023 when the event was held in Cancun.

And in that run to the final in 2023 she made history, becoming the first player to play the entire Top 4 at a single WTA event in WTA rankings history. And she was one win away from beating all four of them, too, defeating No. 4 Rybakina and No. 1 Sabalenka in the round robin and No. 3 Gauff in the semifinals before falling to No. 2 Swiatek in the final.