Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula are getting the band back together. The two Americans will reunite as a doubles team at the Berlin Open this week, their first event together since the 2024 Paris Olympics and a revival of one of the WTA’s most popular partnerships.
The history. Gauff and Pegula won five tour titles as a pair, headlined by the WTA 1000 Miami Open in 2023, before both stepped back to prioritise singles after Paris. Each has dipped into doubles with other partners since, but the Berlin reunion brings back a team whose easy on-court chemistry mirrors a close off-court friendship. Whether it is a one-off or the start of a wider 2026 doubles plan is, for now, unclear.
The draw. The pairing slots into a stacked WTA 500 doubles field that also features Serena Williams alongside Karolína Muchová and the 2026 Australian Open champions Elise Mertens and Zhang Shuai. According to reports, Gauff and Pegula open against Anastasia Potapova and Diana Shnaider. Gauff’s priority for the week remains the singles, where she is a leading seed sharpening her game ahead of Wimbledon.
The subplot. The reunion has drawn extra attention because of reported chatter, aired by tennis journalist Jon Wertheim, that Williams had hoped to partner Gauff in Berlin before ultimately teaming with Muchová. That left some fans speculating about why the two stars did not pair up, though nothing has been confirmed by either camp and the talk should be treated as unverified. What is certain is the on-court intrigue it sets up: if both teams advance deep, Gauff and Williams could meet across the net in the latter rounds. The WTA 500 runs 15 to 21 June.
