Maria Sakkari (WTA 3) wins the beautiful. Victorious over Tatjana Maria (85) in the 1st round of the Australian Open, then eliminated in the round of 16 at Wimbledon by the German, the 27-year-old Greek took the measure 6-4 3-6 6-0 the 35-year-old routine in the 1st round of the US Open, for their 3rd duel of the year in a Grand Slam tournament.
Semi-finalist of the last edition, Sakkari entered the meeting badly. Led 4-1 in the initial set, she was able to reverse the trend by scoring the next 5 games. The 2nd set married an almost similar scenario until 4-1, but the German was then much more solid to return to 1 set everywhere.
Maria, however, collapsed in the final set. Sakkari took full advantage of it to triumph following 1h57 of play. She will face the French Diane Parry (74) or the Chinese Xiju Wang (75).
The Romanian Simona Halep (7), who remained on a victory in Toronto, was eliminated as soon as she entered the running, beaten 6-2 0-6 6-4 by the Ukrainian Daria Snigur (124). It’s a big underperformance from the former world no. 1, who seemed to have made a comeback in Ohio
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