'I'm kind of a perfectionist': Why Australian Open contender Jess Pegula is her own harshest critic

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Setting the highest standards may leave Jessica Pegula frustrated at times, but the world number three knows such an approach is the only way for her to break through for success at the majors, perhaps even this fortnight in Melbourne.

abc.net.au/news/australian-open-jessica-pegula-sets-high-standards/101878378To the casual tennis fan, losing just two games against one of the sport's rising stars should satisfy most players.She will play 20th seed Barbora Krejčíková in the last 16But for world number three Jessica Pegula, there was fault to find in her 6-0, 6-2 thrashing of young Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk in the Australian Open third round.

"Even today, I was annoyed. I didn't think I served very well. I had that game to go up 5-1 [in the second set]. I was up 30-0. I missed a couple of first serves. I don't have a problem analysing my game. While adopting such an approach can leave Pegula frustrated, the American knows setting high standards is the only way she will improve her game."Like everything, there always can be a downside to that. Definitely not being so hard on myself during the matches. At that point, there's really nothing you can change.

Her appearance in the quarterfinals at Melbourne Park last year, where she lost to eventual champion Ash Barty, was the second time she had made the last eight at the tournament.

 

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