Maria Sakkari is through to the quarter-finals at the Citi Open after a shock straight sets win over second seed Emma Navarro 7-5, 7(7)-6(1).<\/p>\n
It was a fairly even matchup with the Greek winning the only break of the match in the final game of the first set.<\/p>\n
It was her service game that gave her the edge, hitting seven aces to one while serving at 84 per cent on her first serve.<\/p>\n
Home country hopeful World No. 11 Navarro though also served at 84 per cent on her first.<\/p>\n
But it was Sakkari who seems to be playing the conditions better, with the fast and high bouncing, hitting big forehands at shoulder level to impose her physicality.<\/p>\n
The 2023 DC finalist will next face the winner of tomorrow\u2019s Emma Raducanu \u2013 Naomi Oaska matchup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maria Sakkari is through to the quarter-finals at the Citi Open after a shock straight sets win over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-17548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}