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Jessica Pegula is seemingly still stunned by “a wild” scene from 2023 Dubai as the American tennis star was left shocked after finding a woman sleeping in a training room. In late February, world No. 5 Pegula took on Viktoria Tomova in her Dubai opener.
At one point, Pegula asked to leave the court because she needed to get her leg taped in the training room. When Pegula got to the training room, she found a woman sleeping in there. Pegula attempted to wake up the person but she just wouldn’t wake up. Since Pegula needed to do the taping and the woman wasn’t waking up, she did the entire process while the person was still sleeping.
To make it all funnier, Pegula got a warning for a delay when she returned to the court. When Pegula attempted to explain to the chair umpire that there was “someone in the freaking training room that wouldn’t leave,” the chair umpire said they would discuss it later and burst into laughter. In the end, it all finished well for Pegula, who went on to complete a 6-2 5-7 6-1 win over Tomova.
On X, someone posted footage of the hilarious scene when Pegula…
