Born in Buffalo, New York, the American professional tennis player Jessica Pegula has always known wealth, first because of her extremely rich parents and now because of her own success in the field. Let us tell you more about her game and where her net worth stands because of it.
Her parents are the owners of both the American National Football League team, Buffalo Bills, and Buffalo Sabres, a team famously known for being a part of the National Hockey League.
Jessica is known to have professionally entered the field of tennis in 2009, though she was noticed for the first time in 2011, during the US Open Doubles tournament, where she entered as a wildcard along with Taylor Townsend.
Her major singles debut came in 2015 when she played at the US Opens as a qualifier. She managed to win matches against Shuko Aoyama, Margarita Gasparyan, Melanie Oudin, and Alison Van Uytvanck. However, she faced defeat during the second round, which she played against Dominika Cibulkova.
She has played enough matches to have entered the top 200, improving her rank and climber higher with every match she played. The 2020 Australian Open managed to bring her ranking to an all-time high of top 43, and this was followed by the Italian Open, which became one of her biggest accomplishments as she managed to defeat the world No.2, Naomi Osaka.
In 2021, her victory over Karolina Pliskova in the German Open brought her ranking to the top 25. It was also by the end of 2022 that she had managed to defeat the world No.2, Iga Swiatek, for the second time.
Though this year has not ended, it has been good for the player in all ways as she managed to defeat not just Harriet Dart but also Martina Trevisan. Her match with the Marketa also gave her the opportunity to bring home the United Cup title for the first time.
Her most recent match was the one at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships, where she reached the quarterfinals but eventually lost to the actual champion, the Czech player Marketa Vondrousova.
Jessica Pegula’s Net Worth
If you can ignore the fact that the tennis player has the title of being ‘the richest tennis player,’ then Jessica Pegula’s net worth stands at a humble but proud $7 million, which she has created all by herself. But if you add the wealth of her extremely rich parents, Kim Pegula and Terrence Pegula, to the table, then it becomes a completely different ball game.
The player, on her own accord, has won several tournaments and has made herself an established personality in the field with many serious accomplishments under her belt. A major source of her earnings is the matches that she plays all over the world, and the prize money she gets after winning a match brings to her bank account.
She has earned prize money of $10,215,768, though the majority of her pay is the yearly pay and revenue she receives after playing a match. Apart from this, she has also earned money through endorsements and sponsorships from brands like Addidas and Yonex.
Being ranked number 3 and having two WTA Singles titles along with five Doubles titles, she has built for herself quite an impressive career. But her success is not solely limited to the ground as she has managed to put out her own skincare line for fans called Ready24, which must also bring enough to her net worth.
Not just this, she is also a huge animal lover, which has led her to run her own charity called the Lending Paw, which rescues pups and dogs and even trains them to be service dogs for people to adopt. This perfectly wraps up her sources of money, and though she hopes that people will stop looking at her as a product of her parent’s wealth, we can just not talk about it.
Her father, Terrence Pegula, holds a net worth of over $6 billion as he is the co-owner of the company Pegula Sports and Entertainment. He also owns the Buffalo Bills and the Buffalo Sabres with his wife, as we mentioned earlier.
Though she does not like being associated with her father’s wealth, it is still difficult to ignore the fact she hails from luxury and comfort, which she might end up inheriting. Apart from her own ventures and that of her father, the player does not have any other source of income.
There are speculations that she owns properties in New York, Florida, and California, though nothing has been publicly revealed, so it cannot be confirmed.
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