Jessica Pegula is one of the best tennis players in the United States, but very little is known about her personal life, especially that of her husband Taylor Gahagen, whom she married in 2021. The daughter of Buffalo Bills owner Terry and Kim Pegula, Jessica rose in the WTA rankings and is now competing in the 2024 US OPEN.

Her better half, Taylor Gahagen, who travels everywhere with her, is a very interesting character, but very little is known about him. Although it is not known exactly when he met Jessica, it is said that they met when he was working at her parents’ sports and management company. In 2019, the couple was engaged and planned to get married in 2020, but the Covid-19 pandemic put a stop to their plans and they finally got married in October 2021.

Gahagen was born in Williamsville, New York, where he attended Williamsville North High School. After finishing school, Taylor was accepted to SUNY Fredonia. In college, he was part of the baseball team and was also involved in the Accounting Society, Business Club, and Financial Management Association. He graduated from college in 2011 with a degree in business administration.

In 2013, he began working at Pegula Sports and Entertainment Company, the company owned by his billionaire father-in-law, Terry Pegula. Here, Gahagen helped launch and brand LECOM Harborcenter, a retail and entertainment facility in Buffalo that opened in 2014.

He was soon promoted to Director of Corporate Development and later to Senior Executive Officer. He left the company in 2023 after working there for a decade and is now a Managing Partner at Dragos Capital and Agarwood Health.

So how did he meet Jessica? Although there isn’t much information about the couple’s beginnings, they were first linked in 2015 when Pegula shared a photo from a party she attended with Gahagen. The post has since been deleted and the oldest photo she has with her husband on Instagram is from September 2016. Here is the photo:

In 2018, Pegula also founded her skincare company Ready 24, of which Gahagen is the vice president. The duo get along very well as their love for animals brings them to a common platform to do something for the welfare of innocent souls.

Together they founded the animal charity “The Lending Paw”. The private organization supports the training of rescue dogs so that they can become service animals.