For Pegula, perhaps next year she'll get into the ear of Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley with a message: day sessions only, please.

MELBOURNE, VIC — Coco Gauff still hasn't lost a match ... No. 7 seed Jessica Pegula was ousted by world No. 55 Olga Danilovic in two sets. The Serbian player beat the U.S. Open runner-up 7-6 ...

But now she's matched her best-ever performance at a Grand Slam in reaching the last 16 - which she also managed at last year's French Open. In beating Pegula - dubbed "the world's richest tennis ...

What could Pegula do about it ... She had just made her second major semifinal of 2023, having lost to Swiatek in the French Open final, when she had to stop playing following the U.S. Open.

However, she lost 3-6,6-4,1-6 ... The last win for the Belgian came at the 2023 French Open, where she won 6-1, 6-3 against the American player. Pegula has a 13-5 record in Melbourne, with three ...

The 30-year-old Buffalonian whose parents own the Bills and Sabres, Pegula lost in the second ... from two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka, 2017 French Open champion Jelena ...

With Jessica Pegula eliminated ... at the Australian Open, but now she'll have to wait for Roland Garros in May, where she fell in the semifinals of the French Open a year ago.