Aryna Sabalenka, Jessica Pegula and others featured on the hilarious WTA post, which was an excellent social media initiative by the organisation for women’s tennis. The reactions from the World No. 1 and the others was funny and amusing.
WTA Players’ Reactions on Featuring in Festive Memes
The WTA shared a fun carousel of pictures of some of the top-ranked players, showing how they would react if they received a work-related email just before the holiday break.
The reactions were hilarious, as players like Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff were shown as sitting with despondent expressions on their faces, which was humorous, while some reactions, such as Aryna Sabalenka’s, showed the Belarusian with her hands pulling down on her face, making for an incredulous reaction.
The responses from players were also encouraging as they got themselves in the festive off-season mood and were amused by being part of such a meme. While Sabalenka responded with laughing emojis, Pegula responded with “dead from inside” which captured her emotion if she received an email from the WTA after a gruelling season.
Sabalenka also reshared the post on her story, captioning ” Ahahhahahaha omg!!!!! true tho”.
The 2025 season was a great one for both Aryna Sabalenka and Jessica Pegula. They won four and three titles respectively, with Sabalenka having more success on the Grand Slam stage, with one title and two runner-up finishes. Pegula on the other hand, had one semifinal finish on the Grand Slam stage at the US Open.
Sabalenka and Pegula met four times on court this year, all at high-profile events. Sabalenka came out on top in the Miami Open final and the US Open semifinals while Pegula triumphed in Wuhan. Their last encounter came in the round-robin of the WTA Finals in Riyadh, with the World No. 1 winning in straight sets to take her head-to-head lead to 9-3 against Pegula.
Sabalenka and Pegula both had decent seasons in 2025, with the former winning 63 out of 75 matches, bagging four titles that included the US Open and two WTA 1000 tournaments in Miami and Madrid. Pegula won 53 out of 23 matches throughout the season, and bagged two WTA 500 titles in Charleston and Bad Homburg. Additionally, she finished as the runner-up in two WTA 1000 events in Wuhan and Miami.
