Jessica Pegula has confirmed that she and Coco Gauff will not team up for a tilt at the US Open doubles title this season.

Pegula says that both players are suffering from fatigue after their Olympic exertions and with the games now behind them they want to focus on singles.

Gauff and Pegula competed together in the women’s doubles competition at the Olympics as well as individual members of Team USA. Gauff has been eliminated from the Canadian Open singles event, while defending champion Pegula is still going strong.

The American No 2 and Giuliana Olmos competed in the Toronto women’s doubles tournament together. The third-seeded team of Caroline Dolehide and Desirae Krawczyk upset the American and Mexican duo in the quarterfinals.

“For me, I’m not sure. I know Coco doesn’t really, isn’t interested in playing, or at least I’m not, we’re not thinking of playing, so I probably will take it easy on the doubles the rest of the year, so, yeah, we’ll see,” Pegula said when asked about her plans to play doubles.

Pegula said that while she wouldn’t rule out any doubles, it wouldn’t be something that she was focused on or giving a high priority to for the remainder of the term.

“I think I’ll just play maybe whenever I kind of want to (laughing), and maybe just focus on singles the rest of the year,” she added.

Gauff, who did not compete in the Canadian Open doubles competition, disclosed that she does not want to play the format going forward.

The defending champion wants to put her singles run at the US Open first as the big priority for the rest of her season.

“No, I’m not going to be playing doubles. I just, the goal was to try to get as good as possible for the Olympics and then, yeah…,” Coco Gauff revealed in a press conference.

“Yeah, it’s just tough to go week-in and week-out on tour, so that’s the reason why…,” she added.

Coco Gauff News

Iga Swiatek, the world’s top-ranked player, was not present at the Canadian Open, therefore Coco Gauff was the top seed.

Prior to the competition, the American stated that she did not think she would take home the trophy.

After a first-round bye, she went on to beat Wang Yafan 6-4 and 6-4 in the second round. But Diana Shnaider, ranked 14th, defeated the 2023 US Open winner 6-4, 6-1 in the third round.

In the meanwhile, Karolina Pliskova was defeated 7-5, 6-4 by third seed Jessica Pegula, who also had a bye in the opening round.

Pegula is through to the last eight at the Canadian Open where she will face compatriot Peyton Stearns.