Maria Sakkari

Maria Sakkari
2015 in Carlsbad
Nation:	Greece
Birthday:	July 25, 1995
Size:	172 cm
Weight:	62 kg
1st professional season:	2015
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Tom Hill
Prize money:	$ 3,089,822
singles
Career record:	316: 215
Career title:	1 WTA , 7 ITF
Highest ranking:	20 (February 24, 2020)
Current placement:	20th
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	51:40
Career title:	0 WTA, 5 ITF
Highest ranking:	169 (September 9, 2019)
Current placement:	182
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Maria Sakkari ( Greek Μαρία Σάκκαρη , born July 25, 1995 in Athens ) is a Greek tennis player . Her mother Angeliki Kanellopoulou was also a professional tennis player.

Career

Sakkari, who started playing tennis at the age of six, moved to Barcelona when she was 18 , where she found better training conditions. She has been competing on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour since 2010 . In 2012 she played her first qualification on the WTA Tour in Palermo and was eliminated in the second round. In 2014 she won her first four professional titles and reached the final of the $ 25,000 tournament in Torun . The following year she won her first title in the $ 25,000 category in Maribor . Then Sakkari started at the US Open for the first time in the qualification of a Grand Slam tournament and immediately came into the main field, in which she lost to Wang Qiang at the beginning . At the end of the season she drew the semi-finals at a tournament of the WTA Challenger Series in Carlsbad and only failed there against the eventual winner Yanina Wickmayer .

At the Australian Open 2016 , Sakkari then succeeded in qualifying again for the main round against Wang Yafan, the first victory before she was beaten in the following match by Carla Suárez Navarro . In Istanbul she then achieved a quarter-finals on clay for the first time at a WTA tournament and on the ITF tour the final at the two $ 50,000 tournaments in Saint-Gaudens and Szeged , which she lost both. With another first round win at Wimbledon and a semifinal participation in the ITF tournament in the $ 100,000 category in Sharm el-Sheikh , Sakkari reached the top 100 of the tennis world rankings for the first time at the end of the year . After a changeable first half of the 2017 season, Sakkari advanced to the third round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time at Wimbledon , in which she had to admit defeat to Johanna Konta . Her international breakthrough came towards the end of the season in Wuhan , where she came out of qualification after a second round win over Caroline Wozniacki , her first ever success over a top 10 player, until she reached the semifinals, in which she was only stopped by the eventual winner Caroline Garcia has been.

In 2018 Sakarri reached the round of 16 after five defeats at the season opener in Indian Wells , in which she was defeated by Naomi Osaka in three sets. On clay she made it to the semi-finals in Istanbul, after her second Top 10 win against Karolína Plíšková she scored the round of 16 in Rome , which she lost to Angelique Kerber , and also made it into the third round for the first time at the French Open . Following a winless grass field season Sakkari scored their first final in a WTA tournament of the premier category in San José , but they could win there against Mihaela Buzărnescu only a single game. Nevertheless, she was listed in the top 30 for the first time in the following week, but fell back after five defeats in a row at the end of the season. Nevertheless, she finished the year for the first time in the top 50 of the tennis world rankings. The 2019 season began Sakkari by reaching the third round at the Australian Open for the first time . In Charleston, after her third Top 10 success over Kiki Bertens, she advanced to the quarterfinals, in which she had to admit defeat to Caroline Wozniacki, and in Rabat, after a final victory over Johanna Konta, she won her first title on the WTA Tour. Then Sakkari managed to move into the semi-finals in Rome , where they failed to Karolína Plíšková. After a mixed grass season, she was in San Jose again in the semifinals, they against Zheng Saisai lost and reached in Cincinnati by victories against Top 10 players Petra Kvitová and Aryna Sabalenka first time the quarterfinals, where they of Ashleigh Barty , they then also in the third round of the US Open took out of the tournament, was beaten in three sets. At the end of her most consistent season to date, which she finished in the top 30 of the world rankings for the first time, Sakkari qualified for the first time for the WTA Elite Trophy 2019 in Zhuhai, where, after two defeats against Aryna Sabalenka and Elise Mertens, she was already in the group stage retired.

At the beginning of 2020, Sakkari reached her first round of 16 in a Grand Slam tournament in Melbourne , in which she was defeated by Petra Kvitová in three sets, and then moved into the semifinals in St. Petersburg after a three-set win against Belinda Bencic , in which she won Jelena Rybakina failed. In the world rankings, she made it into the top 20 for the first time before the corona-related end of the season.

In 2012 she made her debut for the Greek Fed Cup team in the 3-0 defeat against Hungary . Since then she has contested 30 singles and doubles matches for her country, of which she has won twelve (individual balance 11:11).

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 27, 2014	Heraklion	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Despina Papamichail	6: 1, 1: 6, 6: 3
2.	17th May 2014	Båstad	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Carolin Daniels	7: 5, 6: 2
3.	June 22, 2014	Niš	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Dea Herdželaš	3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 1
4th	July 27, 2014	Tampere	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Anastassija Piwowarowa	6: 4, 7: 5
5.	March 29, 2015	Heraklion	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Anastassija Komardina	6: 4, 6: 3
6th	April 5, 2015	Heraklion	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Valentini Grammatikopoulou	6: 2, 6: 2
7th	May 31, 2015	Maribor	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Rebecca Peterson	3: 6, 6: 2, 6: 2
8th.	4th May 2019	Rabat	WTA International	sand	Johanna Konta	2: 6, 6: 4, 6: 1

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	May 10, 2014	Båstad	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Kim Grajdek	Dea Herdželaš Conny Perrin	7: 5, 6: 4
2.	20th June 2014	Niš	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Alexandra Nancarrow	Lina Gjorcheska Marina Lazić	6: 3, 6: 0
3.	July 26, 2014	Tampere	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Alexandra Nancarrow	Emma Laine Anastassija Piwowarowa	6: 2, 6: 3
4th	19th September 2014	Madrid	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Inés Ferrer Suarez	Yvonne Cavalle-Reimers Lucía Cervera Vázquez	6: 2, 3: 6, [11: 9]
5.	November 14, 2015	Dubai	ITF $ 75,000	Hard court	Çağla Büyükakçay	Elise Mertens İpek Soylu	7: 6 6 , 6: 4

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	Balance sheet	Career
Australian Open	-	-	2	3	1	3	AF	8: 5	AF
French Open	-	-	-	1	3	2		3: 3	3
Wimbledon	-	-	2	3	1	3		5: 4	3
US Open	-	1	1	3	2	3		5: 5	3

Web links

Commons : Maria Sakkari  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Maria Sakkari (English)
• ITF profile of Maria Sakkari (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Maria Sakkari (English)