Bad Homburg, Germany – Best seed Jessica Pegula defeated five-time champion Iga Swiatek 6-4, 7-5 on Saturday to win the Grass-Court Bad Homburg Open, extending Swiatek’s one-year championship drought.
Pegula won her third championship in 2025 – along with others in Austin, Texas and Charleston, South Carolina, the ninth title in her career as a 31-year-old American.
Swiatek is fourth in Germany’s WTA 500 Championship, and the 24-year-old Poland is seeking her first trophy since the 2024 French Open and overall.
At their 11th Professional Conference, but first on the grass, Pegula won for the fifth overall victory. Pegula beat the quarterfinals at last year’s U.S. Open, where she finished second.
Although Swiatek hit nine A’s in Saturday’s final, she also gave up on service twice. Pegula saved the only breakout point she faced and won higher percentage points on first and second serves.
The top 1 Swiatek won four French Opens and one U.S. Open, but never surpassed Wimbledon’s quarterfinals.
Pegula has never run in the last eight games at Wimbledon, and London started on Monday.
