Billionaire heiress' touching tribute after win

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By Chris De Silva and Emily Patterson

American satellite No.3 Jessica Pegula has been a fashionable prime to instrumentality retired this year's Australian Open women's title, and has shown wherefore successful the opening round, sweeping distant Jacqueline Cristian 6-0, 6-1.

Taking conscionable 59 minutes, Pegula dismantled her Romanian hostile to breeze done to the 2nd round.

Pegula enjoyed a precise beardown showing astatine the United Cup with Team USA - adjacent shocking satellite No.1 Iga Swiatek successful their semi-final tie.

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Pegula's billionaire father, Terry, owns the Buffalo Bills, and she posted a connection to injured subordinate Damar Hamlin aft her win.

Signing the camera aft the match, Pegula wrote: "Go Bills #3".

Hamlin, the Bills' safety, occupies No.3 astatine the team.

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The 24-year-old was released from infirmary past week aft helium went into cardiac apprehension and had to beryllium resuscitated during an American shot crippled astatine Cincinnati connected January 2.

Hamlin collapsed aft being struck successful the thorax by Bengals receiver Tee Higgins.

With the Bills defeating the Miami Dolphins in the NFL playoffs connected Monday, Pegula was asked if she caught immoderate of the game.

"I woke up astir 7am and got to fundamentally ticker astir of the the 2nd half," she told the media post-match.

"The crippled finished earlier I started my warmup truthful I was retired determination watching.

"There weren't galore radical retired present yet, but I was present watching.

"It wouldn't truly person affected maine [if they had lost], I don't think, but I would person been annoyed that they lost."

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