Though Jessica Pegula didn’t walk away from Arthur Ashe Stadium with the U.S. Open trophy in hand, her husband’s day was won due to Stephen Curry.
The 2-time MVP and four-time NBA champ and his wife, Ayesha, were in attendance at Arthur Ashe Stadium for the ladies’s final and saw Pegula lose to No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka 7-5, 7-5 on Saturday evening.
Pegula had previously met Curry in Paris in the course of the Olympics, where Curry won his first Olympic medal — gold — with the U.S. men’s basketball team.
The couple sat behind on the baselines and had the possibility to speak more with Pegula before the match, and in a while, the American’s husband, Taylor Gahagan, got to fulfill his hero.
“My husband, his iPhone name is Steph Curry, because he loves Steph Curry,” Pegula said, based on the Associated Press. “In the event you hook up with Bluetooth or send him something or AirDrop, it’s ‘Steph Curry’s iPhone.’ So I sort of left early and he texted me and he was so excited. He didn’t wish to say anything. I used to be like, ‘Please tell me you probably did not tell him concerning the iPhone thing.’ He’s like, ‘Oh, yeah, I did.’”
“I assumed that was really cute,” Pegula added. “He was like, ‘No, he loved it.’ I used to be like, ‘Did he? Or did he really think you were sort of crazy?’ I assume he thought it was pretty funny.”
Gahagen, who tied the knot with the tennis star in 2021, formerly worked for Pegula’s parents — Buffalo Bills owners Terry and Kim Pegula — of their sports and entertainment management company for nearly a decade, based on People.
Currently, Gahagen serves because the vp of his wife’s skincare brand, Ready 24, and assists Pegula in running her charitable foundation, A Lending Paw.
It was a lightweight, humorous moment to assist clear any disappointment for Pegula after losing what was the world No. 6’s first grand slam final appearance.
Sabalenka was the favourite going into the 12 months’s final grand slam in Flushing and the Belarusian player was out for revenge after losing the ladies’s final in 2023 to Coco Gauff.
Sabalenka got off to a hot start, winning five consecutive games to grab the primary set.
Nevertheless, that didn’t fully deter Pegula, who got as much as a 3-0 lead in the ultimate set and later held it at 5-3, looking promising to force a 3rd set.
But Sabalenka composed herself and was in a position to rally for the win.
Though Jessica Pegula didn’t walk away from Arthur Ashe Stadium with the U.S. Open trophy in hand, her husband’s day was won due to Stephen Curry.
The 2-time MVP and four-time NBA champ and his wife, Ayesha, were in attendance at Arthur Ashe Stadium for the ladies’s final and saw Pegula lose to No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka 7-5, 7-5 on Saturday evening.
Pegula had previously met Curry in Paris in the course of the Olympics, where Curry won his first Olympic medal — gold — with the U.S. men’s basketball team.
The couple sat behind on the baselines and had the possibility to speak more with Pegula before the match, and in a while, the American’s husband, Taylor Gahagan, got to fulfill his hero.
“My husband, his iPhone name is Steph Curry, because he loves Steph Curry,” Pegula said, based on the Associated Press. “In the event you hook up with Bluetooth or send him something or AirDrop, it’s ‘Steph Curry’s iPhone.’ So I sort of left early and he texted me and he was so excited. He didn’t wish to say anything. I used to be like, ‘Please tell me you probably did not tell him concerning the iPhone thing.’ He’s like, ‘Oh, yeah, I did.’”
“I assumed that was really cute,” Pegula added. “He was like, ‘No, he loved it.’ I used to be like, ‘Did he? Or did he really think you were sort of crazy?’ I assume he thought it was pretty funny.”
Gahagen, who tied the knot with the tennis star in 2021, formerly worked for Pegula’s parents — Buffalo Bills owners Terry and Kim Pegula — of their sports and entertainment management company for nearly a decade, based on People.
Currently, Gahagen serves because the vp of his wife’s skincare brand, Ready 24, and assists Pegula in running her charitable foundation, A Lending Paw.
It was a lightweight, humorous moment to assist clear any disappointment for Pegula after losing what was the world No. 6’s first grand slam final appearance.
Sabalenka was the favourite going into the 12 months’s final grand slam in Flushing and the Belarusian player was out for revenge after losing the ladies’s final in 2023 to Coco Gauff.
Sabalenka got off to a hot start, winning five consecutive games to grab the primary set.
Nevertheless, that didn’t fully deter Pegula, who got as much as a 3-0 lead in the ultimate set and later held it at 5-3, looking promising to force a 3rd set.
But Sabalenka composed herself and was in a position to rally for the win.
