Keys had beforehand insisted she would refuse to eat the delicacy, however she admitted defeat and mentioned she would settle for the phrases of the wager.
“A wager is a wager, so I will do it. I hope it is much less gross than I believe it’ll be however we’ll discover out I suppose,” Keys mentioned in her post-match information convention.
Had the ninth seed gained the fourth-round match and continued her title defence, Keys’ facet of the wager concerned Pegula – whose billionaire mother and father personal NFL facet Buffalo Payments – sporting a Kansas Metropolis Chiefs jersey.
“She needed me to put on a [Travis] Kelce slash Taylor Swift Chiefs jersey,” Pegula mentioned. “Actually I had a variety of motivation at the moment to not put on that.”
The 2024 US Open finalist wrote “no Chiefs jersey at the moment” on a courtside digicam lens after her victory and the pair have been seen chatting and laughing within the locker room straight after the match.
Keys, who beat Sabalenka in final 12 months’s remaining at Melbourne Park, mentioned she was “nonetheless actually happy with herself” regardless of her exit.
“Coming again and being defending champion, and coping with the entire additional stress and nerves – I’m actually happy with myself for the way in which I dealt with it,” she mentioned.
Fourth seed Anisimova awaits Pegula within the quarter-finals after she overpowered Wang 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 to succeed in her first quarter-final on the Australian Open.
The 24-year-old has but to drop a set at Melbourne Park as she bids for a primary main title after ending as runner-up at Wimbledon and the US Open final 12 months.
With fellow People Coco Gauff and Iva Jovic already within the quarter-finals, it’s the first time 4 gamers from the US have reached the final eight within the girls’s singles on the Australian Open since 2001.
