‘It’s My Job’: Billionaire Star Jessica Pegula Shocked and Decides to Lend a Hand to the Public by Participating in…

Jessica Pegula, the world’s richest tennis player, has offered to lend a helping hand to the citizens of a town ravaged by Hurricane Helene. The storm was the most powerful hurricane ever to strike the Big Bend region of Florida before moving inland and claiming more lives.

Most of the fatalities have been reported in North and South Carolina, where Helena landed as a tropical storm. At least 30 people are thought to have been killed in Buncombe County, home to the mountain city of Asheville where Pegula got married in 2021.

Taking to social media, Pegula said she was heartbroken by the devastation and asked for ways in which she could help the victims of the disaster.

She posted on X, formerly Twitter: “Asheville always holds a special place in my heart because it’s where I got married. I can’t believe the devastation right now. So many people stranded and missing.

“I hope everyone is staying as safe as they possibly can. What are some ways we can help?”

Pegula is technically worth billions as she is poised to inherit the wealth of her father, Terry, who is one of the richest businessmen in the United States. Her parents are the owners of two sports teams, the Buffalo Bills in the NFL and the Buffalo Sabres in the NHL.

Her father made his fortune in the oil and gas sectors and boasts an incredible net worth of around £5.7 billion, according to Forbes. The family’s impressive wealth technically makes Pegula far richer than Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic combined.

Earlier this year, Pegula hit back at reports about her wealthy background and insisted that it never had an impact on her career.

Speaking on an episode of Netflix series Break Point, she said: “Some people get this image that it’s really easy for me because my dad is very wealthy but that didn’t happen until I was 17 or 18.

“My dad was probably more hard on me than my mum, the more old-school one pushing me. They gave me a great childhood and instilled a lot of work ethic in me. This definitely got me to this point.

“The journalists that write about me have no freaking clue. I can’t buy my way into a semi-final. I was just like, what kind of clickbait trash is this? I would definitely give up everything to win tournaments.”

Novak Djokovic’s wife Jelena has shed light on her approach to parenting, admitting that she is worried about the world their children are growing up in. The couple, who were high school sweethearts, got married in 2014 and welcomed their son, Stefan, later that year.

They also have a daughter, Tara, who celebrated her seventh birthday last month. Ahead of Stefan turning 10 in a few weeks, Jelena has admitted to having ‘fears’ about parenting but is not letting her concerns dictate her approach to raising her two children.

In an interview with Zena, she said: “I have fears like every parent, but I do my best not to let them control my behaviour towards the children. Circumstances have changed, but the world and the process of growing up and maturing have always carried with them uncertainties.

“I want to believe that if we give children a good foundation, which is the security of a family environment, unconditional love, acceptance, that they will have a stable base to deal with the challenges that the future brings.”

Jelena added that she was worried about striking the right balance between protecting her children and giving them space to grow, admitting that she will not know if she has been successful until they begin to navigate life as adults.

“I haven’t taken the exam for achieving balance in parenting yet, so I’m not sure if I passed or failed it,” she said. “They say that test comes when children grow up and when their time for independence comes.

“We will see how it will be. I think that today it is very difficult to find a balance in anything because society cultivates the mantra ‘never enough, more more more’ and then you see a lot of exaggeration in everything.”

Djokovic has also opened up on his approach to raising children, admitting in an interview with Blic that he argues with Jelena over his decision to ban them from having phones.

Their children have protested it, claiming they are the only ones at school without their own phones. Djokovic, however, says the ban is intended to teach them about not following the herd mentality.

“My children still don’t have a cell phone, my wife and I argue,” he said. “They complain: ‘At school everyone has one except us’. It’s not easy and this is reflected on other levels as well.

“If everyone does something, the herd behaves like this, you have to follow them. Well, it doesn’t have to be like that. This is where I think we differ from others, because we are stubborn and active.”