Jessica Pula will contest her maiden Grand Slam final at the US Open Jessica Pula will contest her first Grand Slam Final on home soil on Saturday as she faces AR sabalenka with the US Open title on the line world number six pegula has never made it this far at a major before now she had a 06 record in Grand Slam quarterfinals her run has prompted her dad billionaire Terry pegula to break his own rules the Buffalo Bills owner was spotted in the Arthur ashy Stadium crowd when his daughter faced karolina muchova in Thursday's semi-final it was an unusual sight as Terry has previously chosen not to watch pigula play in person John Scott the sports director of Buffalo TV station wgz was surprised to see pula's father in the crowd for her semi-final he tweeted Terry Pula shown watching daughter Jesse in US Open semifinal he said in the past he gets too nervous to watch her in person Scott also recalled one of his past conversations with the 73-year-old businessman who knew that his daughter would be able to reach the top of the game when she finally solved her physical problems I had a conversation many years ago with Terry pigula about Jesse's tennis career he wrote on X formerly known as Twitter at that point injuries had really slowed her Terry adamantly told me his daughter could beat anyone in the world when healthy she's headed to First Grand Slam final s Saturday Pula was something of a late bloomer compared to most of her peers the American reached her first Grand Slam quarterfinal at the 2021 Australian Open when she was 26 years old she was 28 when she broke into the world's top 10 for the first time