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Jessica Pegula Opens Up About Her Mother’s Cardiac Arrest

In an essay, Jessica Pegula, a tennis player, described the health ordeal that her mother, Kim, an owner and president of the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres, endured last year.

Kim Pegula at a Buffalo Bills game in 2019. Her daughter Jessica, the professional tennis player, described her mother’s recovery from cardiac arrest in an essay in The Players’ Tribune.Credit...Lynne Sladky/Associated Press

Jessica Pegula, the professional tennis player, has revealed details for the first time about the health of her mother, Kim Pegula, a co-owner and president of the Buffalo Bills and the Buffalo Sabres, describing how she went into cardiac arrest last year and is still struggling to recover.