Jessica Pegula's billionaire dad wanted American star to skip Wimbledon【News】

Jessica pagula penned an emotional essay opening up on her mom's cardiac arrest American tennis star Jessica pagula shown during the early stages of last year's Wimbledon but her billionaire father urged her to skip the tournament altogether a 28-year-old known for being the richest in her sport in the world tasted defeat after losing 6-2 7-6-5 to Petra martic of Croatia in the third round but pagula almost did not enter the Graf Court Grand Slam event at all owing to some off the field matters her mother Kim was hospitalized in Florida ahead of the tournament and what her family described then as some unexpected health issues that was shortly after Jessica returned from the French Open where she reached the quarterfinals and Singles Plus the final in doubles alongside fellow American Coco gauf in the weeks and months that followed the pagulas have remained largely private about her recovery pagula's parents own the NFL's Buffalo Bills and NHL's Buffalo Sabers that desire for privacy Sparks speculation from Bill's fans something Jessica recalls having to deal with at Wimbledon in an emotionally open article she penned for the Player's Tribune the article published on Tuesday is titled I want to talk to you about my mom in the first person piece pagula opens up on the near Heartbreaker family endured as she begins this is a story about my mother my family in the past year recalling the harrowing moment her mom suffered a cardiac arrest the world number four revealed in June 2022 I had just flown back to Florida from the French Open I made the quarter-finals and singles in the finals in doubles it was an amazing two weeks full of a lot of positives including cracking the top 10 in the world a few days after I got home I got a call around midnight on my mom's birthday from my sister Kelly who was staying at my parents house something was wrong with our mom and she was headed to the hospital and an ambulance my mom was asleep when my dad woke up to her going into cardiac arrest and she was unresponsive for quite a while my sister gave her CPR and tell the ambulance arrived she saved her life with Wimbledon right around the corner pagula had to decide whether to travel to London and play at the all England club or to stay at home that decision was enhanced after her dad Terry currently the 434th richest person in the world wanted her to skip the third slam of the Year entirely she added I had already decided I was missing most of the grass season but I still wanted to play Wimbledon if I knew my mom was okay my dad didn't want me to play but I knew my mom would be upset if I skipped because of her so if the timeline worked out I was going to play [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music]