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Victoria Azarenka Battles Into Miami Open Semis, Elena Rybakina Beats Maria Sakkari | Tennis News

Three-time Miami Open winner Victoria Azarenka battled for nearly three hours to get past a determined Yulia Putintseva and take her place in the semi-finals with a 7-6 (7/4), 1-6, 6-3 win on Tuesday. Fourth-seeded Elena Rybakina, the highest seeded player left in the tournament, held off a strong challenge from eighth-seed Maria Sakkari of Greece before emerging with a 7-5, 6-7 (4/7), 6-4 win. The 34-year-old Azarenka, who won in Miami in 2009, 2011 and 2016, had to deal not only with the spirited display from the Moscow-born Kazakh player, but also a long disruption to the match due to a technical problem.The match was stopped for 45 minutes in the fourth game of the first set due to a power outage which impacted the umpire's communications and the hawkeye system.Azarenka had to save ...
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World No. 1 Iga Swiatek Sweeps Past Maria Sakkari For Second Indian Wells Title | Tennis News

World number one Iga Swiatek powered past Greece's Maria Sakkari 6-4, 6-0 on Sunday to claim her second Indian Wells WTA title two years after she beat Sakkari for her first. The rematch of the 2022 championship showdown produced an almost identical outcome, as four-time Grand Slam champion Swiatek dominated the second set to seize her 19th career title and her second of 2024. Sakkari, ranked ninth in the world, battled gamely through the opening set, erasing a break and saving two break points in the final game before Swiatek delivered a blistering forehand winner to pocket the set after 44 minutes.It would take just 24 more minutes for the Polish star to wrap things up. She broke Sakkari at love for a 2-0 lead and rolled to the finish.Swiatek, who continued her strong comeback from a ...
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No.1 Aryna Sabalenka Sizzles Past Maria Sakkari As WTA Finals Begin | Tennis News

Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka moved closer to clinching the year-end world number one ranking on Sunday by dominating Greece's Maria Sakkari in a group-stage opener at the WTA Finals. The 25-year-old from Belarus, who captured this year's Australian Open title, fired six aces and 17 winners while saving all five break points she faced to dispatch Sakkari 6-0, 6-1 at the season-ending event in Cancun, Mexico. Sakkari saved three match points to hold serve in the penultimate game but fell after 74 minutes."It wasn't as easy as the score showed," Sabalenka said. "I just tries to stay focused, tried to control myself in this match, doing everything I can to win."American Jessica Pegula defeated Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina 7-5, 6-2 in 83 minutes in the other singles group stage match at the $9 ...
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‘Is This Real?’ Tearful Zhu Lin Stuns Sixth Seed Maria Sakkari In Melbourne | Tennis News

Sixth seed Maria Sakkari became the latest major casualty at the Australian Open on Friday when she was shocked 7-6 (7/3), 1-6, 6-4 by an emotional world number 87 Zhu Lin of China. Zhu, whose 29th birthday will be on women's singles final day next Saturday, is into the last 16 and a date with former champion Victoria Azarenka. Zhu had lost all seven of her previous encounters against top-10 players.But you wouldn't have known it in a late-night encounter on Margaret Court Arena which went past midnight and, fittingly, into Chinese New Year's eve.Underdog Zhu celebrated the Year of the Rabbit by taking the first set on a tiebreak.Though she dropped the second as Sakkari finally woke up, Zhu regrouped to secure the biggest win of her Grand Slam career and then burst into floods of tears....
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‘I Thought I Was Gonna Lose’: Sakkari Survives College Student Scare | Tennis News

Maria Sakkari survived a scare against college student Diana Shnaider at the Australian Open on Wednesday, grinding out victory in a bad-tempered match that she thought she "was gonna lose". The Greek sixth-seed narrowly avoided the biggest upset of the year's opening Grand Slam so far by eventually coming through 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 to reach the third round. Shnaider, an 18-year-old qualifier from Russia who studies at North Carolina State, pushed Sakkari all the way in a 2hr 33min examination on Margaret Court Arena."It was extremely tough. There were moments in the match where I thought I was gonna lose, but then my belief somehow woke me up," Sakkari told reporters.The hard-hitting Shnaider broke Sakkari's opening serve and showed huge guts to save three break-back points and secure the o...
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Maria Sakkari Into Last Four At WTA Finals As Ons Jabeur On Track | Tennis News

World number five Maria Sakkari advanced to the last four of the WTA Finals for the second straight year on Wednesday as Tunisia's Ons Jabeur got her campaign back on track with a battling victory. Greece's Sakkari secured her place in the semi-finals in Fort Worth, Texas, after cruising past seventh-seeded Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus 6-2, 6-4. Sakkari's second win of the round-robin stage left her on top of the Nancy Richey Group with one match remaining. Sakkari will qualify in top spot from the group if she beats Jabeur in her final first-round game."It feels great, just giving myself the chance to play my next match a little bit more relaxed, and enjoy another battle," Sakkari said after her win."Obviously I want to win -- I still want to go undefeated. It's gonna be a very tough mat...
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Maria Sakkari Edges Pegula To Open WTA Finals | Tennis News

Maria Sakkari opened the season-ending event Monday with a straight sets win.© AFPMaria Sakkari, aiming to improve on her WTA Finals semi-final run last year, opened the season-ending event Monday with a straight sets round-robin victory over Jessica Pegula. Greece's Sakkari, ranked fifth in the world, toppled third-ranked American Pegula 7-6 (8/6), 7-6 (7/4). Action in the Nancy Richey Group continued later Monday at Dickies Arena with Tunisian world number two Ons Jabeur -- a finalist at Wimbledon and the US Open this year -- taking on seventh-ranked Aryna Sabalenka.In a rematch of the WTA Guadalajara final won by Pegula last week, she and Sakkari traded six service breaks in the opening set, Pegula twice recovering a break before Sakkari put it away in the tiebreaker.After pocketing ...
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China’s Wang Xiyu Stuns Third Seed Maria Sakkari At US Open | Tennis News

Maria Sakkari lost in the second round© AFPChina's Wang Xiyu stunned third seed Maria Sakkari at the US Open on Wednesday to reach the third round of a Grand Salm for the first time. Wang, ranked 75, came from a set down to knock out her Greek opponent, who made the semi-finals last year, 3-6, 7-5, 7-5 in their two-hour 43-minute clash. The left-hander hit 35 winners and saved 12 of 17 break points and goes on to face either Alison Riske-Amritraj of the United States or Camila Osorio of Colombia for a place in the last 16.Wang was one of four Chinese women to reach the second round in New York along with Zheng Qinwen, Zhang Shuai and Yuan Yue.More updates to followTopics mentioned in this article Source link