Buffalo’s Jessica Pegula advances at US Open tennis tournament

New York — Jessica Pegula is back in the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament, which used to be her roadblock.

The way Pegula is playing at this U.S. Open, it may be just another stop on the way back to the final.

Pegula, an American whose parents own the NFL’s Buffalo Bills and NHL’s Buffalo Sabres, rolled into the last eight by routing fellow American Ann Li 6-1, 6-2 in just 54 minutes on Sunday. The No. 4 seed hasn’t dropped a set this year at Flushing Meadows, and only once was she even kept on court for more than 1 hour, 15 minutes…

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