Updated Monday, Aug. 3: Both finals were completed on Monday. Alexandra Eala beat Jessica Pegula 4-6, 6-4, 6-0 to win the first WTA Tour singles title of her career, becoming the first player from the Philippines to win a tour-level singles title and rising to a career-high No. 20. Taylor Fritz then beat Rafael Jodar 7-6 (2), 6-4 for his first title of 2026 and his first in Washington, converting a fifth championship point to close it out. Jodar leaves with a career-high ranking of No. 15. Full report on the women’s final: Eala rallies past Pegula for her first WTA title.
Rain stopped the Mubadala DC Open twice on Sunday and left both singles finals unfinished, turning the closing day of the Washington ATP 500 and WTA 500 into a waiting game with no slack on the calendar behind it. Jessica Pegula had taken the opening set 6-4 against Alexandra Eala and trailed 2-1 in the second when play was suspended for the second time.
The men’s final between Taylor Fritz and Rafael Jodar never started. Organizers pushed the restart back repeatedly through the afternoon and evening before abandoning the day altogether.
The tournament had tried to get ahead of the weather. Sunday’s order of play was rewritten the day before to move both championship matches earlier, with the women’s final brought forward to noon and the men’s set for a 2:30 p.m. start, in anticipation of evening storms. The rain arrived in the late morning instead.
It interrupted the doubles final, which Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool eventually won 6-3, 6-4 over Austin Krajicek and Nikola Mektic for their second ATP 500 title of the season, then returned twice more once the women’s final finally got underway in mid-afternoon. Lightning in the vicinity forced a shelter-in-place announcement across the grounds.
What the delay has interrupted is the most consequential day of Eala’s career. The 21-year-old, ranked No. 28, is playing only the second tour-level final of her career and chasing her first WTA title, having beaten Zheng Qinwen, defending champion Leylah Fernandez, second seed Elina Svitolina and third seed Naomi Osaka to reach it. Pegula is after her 12th career title and her second in Washington, where she won her first tour-level trophy in 2019. It is the American’s fourth final of 2026.
The men’s final carries a similar mix of milestone and momentum. Fritz, the world No. 10, is into his 23rd tour-level final, chasing an 11th career title and his first of the season after runner-up finishes in Dallas, Stuttgart and Halle, and he is the first player this year to reach three ATP 500 finals. Jodar, 19, is in his first ATP 500 final in the week he confirmed his top-20 debut.
He also has the most to lose from a long wait. His semifinal against Alejandro Tabilo did not finish until 11:15 p.m. on Saturday, and the earlier Sunday start had already trimmed his recovery window before the rain stretched the day out again. The bigger problem is what sits immediately behind Washington. Both halves of the Canadian Open opened their main draws on Sunday, the women in Toronto and the men in Montreal, which leaves the four finalists finishing one tournament while another has already started.
Pegula and Eala are both seeded in Toronto and both hold first-round byes, with Pegula scheduled to meet Magdalena Frech or Leolia Jeanjean and Eala facing Alycia Parks or Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva in the women’s draw. Fritz is the No. 7 seed in Montreal and also has a bye. Jodar, unseeded, sits in Alex de Minaur’s quarter of the men’s draw and could be scheduled earlier in the week than any of them.
That compression is a feature of the current calendar rather than an accident of one storm. The 12-day Masters 1000 format stacks Washington directly against the Canadian Open, which now runs to Aug. 13, with Cincinnati main-draw play beginning the same week and the US Open main draw following on Aug. 30. The hard-court swing has no spare day built into it, so a washed-out Sunday in Washington does not simply move — it collides.
After a delay of more than five hours, organizers called off the remainder of Sunday’s play at about 9 p.m. and moved both finals to Monday. The women’s final was set to resume at noon local time, with Pegula leading 6-4, 1-2 and serving at the second-set changeover, and the men’s final to follow not before 1 p.m. Fritz, at least, has been through the exercise before, having won a weather-delayed Monday final at Delray Beach in 2024.
The cost fell on the crowd as much as the players. Ticket holders who arrived for a noon start on Sunday sat through roughly nine hours at Rock Creek Park and saw 13 games of tennis, none of them from the men’s final. The tournament said Sunday tickets would be honored for Monday and put an additional 1,000 on sale, and fans who left during the delays were readmitted at both gates. It is a reasonable response to a problem the event did not create and could not fix, but it does not give anyone back the afternoon, and a Monday finish is not a day most ticket holders can simply take.
Both finals were previewed here: Pegula against Eala and Fritz against Jodar. Eala’s week also moved her closer to the top-20 breakthrough she has been tracking all summer, and the winners in Washington carry that form into Cincinnati and then New York.
