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The 20-year-old Krueger did get on the
scoreboard, using her six feet, one inch frame to great effect
in her powerful serves. However, Pegula never looked seriously
troubled against her 75th ranked opponent and sealed the first
set with an ace.
The youngster was broken again in quick succession in the second
set, and racked up 29 unforced errors in the match. Pegula, 30,
ended Krueger's first appearance in the main draw at Wimbledon
with an ace to complete a 49-minute win.
"I know Ashlyn pretty well and I know she has a very big game
and I know she can kind of just start hitting whenever so my
goal was to get the biggest lead possible so if that started to
happen I had something to fall back on," Pegula said on court.
The 30-year-old won her first title on grass at last month's
Berlin Open and performed well in Eastbourne to raise the
prospect of going beyond the quarter-finals at a Grand Slam for
the first time.
"It's taught me to, getting that bit of confidence on grass and
winning a title on grass, maybe to be a bit more patient, not
get so frustrated with some of the weird bounces that can
happen," she added.
"So I think it helped a lot and I'm trying to use that
confidence as much as I can coming into this week."
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