Jessica Pegula has completed the WTA 1000 hard court set after she defeated Elina Svitolina to win the Dubai Tennis Championships.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old took a straight-sets victory 6-2, 6-4 to secure her fourth WTA 1000 title and continue her impressive start to the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
Afterwards, she was happy to receive an early birthday present for Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t ask for a better birthday present. I\u2019m just super proud of myself. I had to play at a very high level, it was awesome,\u201d Pegula said in her on-court interview.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like when you can get off to a quick start, that eases the nerves a little bit.<\/p>\n
\u201cMentally, I think, especially the match yesterday, I was down a set and 3-1, and I fought back, which made me feel free today. I trusted the things we\u2019ve been working on and it paid off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite receiving 880 points for her win, Pegula has not moved in the standings and remains in fifth, two spots off her career best of third.<\/p>\n
The win takes her to 6,768 points, 35 points behind fourth-place Coco Gauff and 715 ahead of World No.6 Amanda Anisimova.<\/p>\n
So far this year, Pegula has earned 1,855 ranking points and can next add to her tally with her next scheduled tournament, Indian Wells.<\/p>\n
For winning the tournament, Pegula has received $665,000, an 11.4% increase from last year.<\/p>\n
That puts her at $1,551,390 for the season and $23,433,268 for her career.<\/p>\n
Despite the defeat, Svitolina has still earned a healthy amount of ranking points at 585.<\/p>\n
She remains in ninth, 156 behind Mirra Andreeva who is in eighth. Victoria Mboko is 599 behind in 10th.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old has earned 1,735 so far this year.<\/p>\n
For finishing runner-up, Svitolina was rewarded with $385,001 and has a YTD total of $1,232,676.<\/p>\n
The post Jessica Pegula updated ranking points and prize money after Dubai Tennis Championships win<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jessica Pegula has completed the WTA 1000 hard court set after she defeated Elina Svitolina to win the Dubai Tennis Championships. The 31-year-old took a straight-sets victory 6-2, 6-4 to secure her fourth WTA 1000 title and continue her impressive start to the 2026 season. Afterwards, she was happy to receive an early birthday present […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}