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, have been in attendance at Arthur Ashe Stadium for the ladies’s last and noticed Pegula lose to No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka 7-5, 7-5 on Saturday night.
Pegula had beforehand met Curry in Paris in the course of the Olympics, the place Curry received his first Olympic medal — gold — with the U.S. males’s basketball workforce.
The couple sat behind on the baselines and had the possibility to speak extra with Pegula earlier than the match, and in a while, the American’s husband, Taylor Gahagan, acquired to fulfill his hero.
“My husband, his iPhone name is Steph Curry, because he loves Steph Curry,” Pegula stated, in keeping with the Related Press. “If you connect to Bluetooth or send him something or AirDrop, it’s ‘Steph Curry’s iPhone.’ So I kind of left early and he texted me and he was so excited. He didn’t want to say anything. I was like, ‘Please tell me you did not tell him about the iPhone thing.’ He’s like, ‘Oh, yeah, I did.’”
“I thought that was really cute,” Pegula added. “He was like, ‘No, he loved it.’ I was like, ‘Did he? Or did he really think you were kind of crazy?’ I guess he thought it was pretty funny.”
Gahagen, who tied the knot with the tennis star in 2021, previously labored for Pegula’s dad and mom — Buffalo Payments house owners Terry and Kim Pegula — of their sports activities and leisure administration firm for almost a decade, in keeping with Folks.
At present, Gahagen serves because the vice chairman 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 shedding what was the world No. 6’s first grand slam last look.
Sabalenka was the favourite going into the 12 months’s last grand slam in Flushing and the Belarusian participant was out for revenge after shedding the ladies’s last in 2023 to Coco Gauff.
Sabalenka acquired off to a sizzling begin, profitable 5 consecutive video games to seize the primary set.
However, that didn’t totally deter Pegula, who acquired as much as a 3-0 lead within the last set and later held it at 5-3, trying promising to power a 3rd set.
However Sabalenka composed herself and was capable of rally for the win.
