By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Thursday August 12, 2021
Jessica Pegula battled past Danielle Collins in Toronto, ending the brilliant run of her American adversary.
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Jessica Pegula snapped Danielle Collins’ 12-match win streak on Thursday night in Montreal, but not before having to work extremely hard for it. The compatriots pushed each other to the brink in a contest that lasted long until long after 1 A.M., trading baseline blows in front of a sparse but dedicated crowd, until Pegula finally converted her sixth match point to lock down the 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 victory in two hours and 28 minutes.
“Oh my god, I don’t know what just happened,” a fatigued Pegula said to the crowd after the match.
Credit Collins, the Palermo and San Jose Champion who is playing the best tennis of her career at the age of 27, for making this match a brawl until the end. She survived an epic three-set encounter with Simona Halep last night in Montreal and had plenty of kineseo tap on her left leg, on the knee, behind the knee, and close to the thigh.
“She’s competing so tough right now, she’s smart, she figures it out,” Pegula said of Collins after the match. Collins never wavered, even when trailing 5-2 in the third.
Collins proceeded to save five match points (one with Collins serving at 2-5, four more with Pegula serving at 5-3) and levelled at five-all soon thereafter.
But Pegula stood strong, saved two break points to hold for 6-5, and finally locked up the victory by breaking in the 12th game.
The American will face Ons Jabeur, who defeated Bianca Andreescu in three sets, in the last eight.
Here is the full quarterfinal lineup: