DANIEL ISLAND, S.C. — Jessica Pegula nearly bailed Wednesday afternoon. The sight of the crafty, motivated Yulia Putintseva glowering across the net is a foreboding one for any tennis player, at any time. For Pegula, defending a title at the Charleston Open and playing her first match of one of the biggest transitions in every tennis season, it was even more of a nightmare. “All I kept thinking was, like, ‘We’re into clay-court season’,” Pegula said in a news conference, after she had refocused
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