{"id":394355,"date":"2026-01-06T02:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/394355\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T02:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:01:10","slug":"sakkari-beats-raducanu-to-send-greece-into-united-cup-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/394355\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakkari beats Raducanu to send Greece into United Cup quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/sakkari-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sakkari beats Raducanu to send Greece into United Cup quarterfinals\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/sakkari-1-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[Associated Press] <\/p>\n<p>Maria Sakkari defeated Emma Raducanu 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20131 at RAC Arena in Perth to give Greece a 2\u20130 lead over Great Britain in the United Cup, sealing qualification for the quarterfinals as winners of Group 5.<\/p>\n<p>The victory marked Sakkari\u2019s first career win over Raducanu. Since their meeting in the semifinals of the 2021 US Open, the Greek had been winless against the British star, losing all four encounters without taking a set (0\u20134, 0\u20138 in sets).<\/p>\n<p>Greece has now returned to the United Cup knockout stage for the first time in two years and remains unbeaten in the tournament, boasting a perfect 5\u20130 record.<\/p>\n<p>Next, Greece will face Switzerland, led by Belinda Bencic and Stan Wawrinka, on Wednesday, with a place in the semifinals at stake.<\/p>\n<p>The United Cup features 18 national teams divided into six groups of three. In each tie, teams contest three matches: one men\u2019s singles, one women\u2019s singles, and one mixed doubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Associated Press] Maria Sakkari defeated Emma Raducanu 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20131 at RAC Arena in Perth to give Greece&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-394355","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\/394355","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=394355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}