Fourth seed Pegula roars back to overcome Jovic and reach Wimbledon quarters

[p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/pegula-jessica/KdojxrAR/"]Pegula[/a] dropped ‌her first set of the tournament ‌in a scrappy opener featuring seven service breaks, but she raised her level ‌after that [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/tennis/jovic-i-bmWvBlnL/pegula-j-KdojxrAR/?mid=vB4XPMOi"]against the 18-year-old.[/a][/p][p]Serving ⁠with more authority ‌and cutting out the unforced errors, she ​won four games in a row after losing the first game ​of the second set and did not look back.[/p][embed guid="830800fa-fb35-4273-9738-9bcdcd352dee" url="https://x.com/Wimbledon/status/2073774070051520761" social-type="twitter" /][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/jovic-iva/bmWvBlnL/"]Jovic[/a], the 16th seed, ⁠began to ​look dispirited in the third set as the 32-year-old Pegula moved quickly towards the finish.[/p][p][b]"That was really tough,"[/b] Pegula, ‌who has made at least the quarter-final stage of all four Grand Slams, said on a sunny Court One.[/p][p][b]"Iva's a great player and brings lots of energy and intensity, and I just couldn't find my serve in the first set even though I ‌wasn't playing badly.[/b][/p][p][b]"Luckily, I started to ​serve better."[/b][/p][image alt="Key match stats" id="3cf6b1e6-9a08-4227-8ef1-90f9b199d57b" credit-line="Flashscore" guid="b8d86846-a5eb-4f40-a71e-a286694689d7" original-width="2160" original-height="2700" /][p]Pegula, one of five American ‌women to reach the last 16 for the first time since 2002, could face a compatriot in the last eight if [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/gauff-coco/f5BXmEH6/"]Coco Gauff[/a] ⁠beats Switzerland's [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/bencic-belinda/ObGlDvu0/"]Belinda ⁠Bencic[/a] later ‌on Sunday.[/p][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/tennis/wta-singles/wimbledon/"]Follow the women's side at Wimbledon here.[/a][/b][/p]