Aryna Sabalenka’s comeback lightning can’t strike twice as Jessica Pegula surges to Berlin win

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Aryna Sabalenka, world No. 1 tennis player, lost a deciding set 6-0 to Jessica Pegula at the Berlin Tennis Open semifinals after a rain-delay momentum shift. Pegula recovered from a previous deficit to win the match.

World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka lost a deciding set 6-0 for the second time in four matches, as Jessica Pegula of the U.S. recovered from a rain-delay momentum shift at the Berlin Tennis Open to defeat her 6-4, 6-7(4), 6-0. Sabalenka had reached their semifinal by coming from 6-2, 4-0 down to defeat the Czech Republic’s Nikola Bartůňková, but she could not repeat the trick Saturday. Pegula led 6-4, 6-6 (2-1*) when Sabalenka double-faulted to fall 3-1 down in the second-set tiebreak. But at that poin