{"id":409090,"date":"2026-01-12T22:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/409090\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T22:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:30:09","slug":"adelaide-international-2026-daria-kasatkina-first-win-australian-soil-maria-sakkari-result-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/409090\/","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide International 2026 | Daria Kasatkina first win Australian soil; Maria Sakkari result; interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daria Kasatkina<\/a> has claimed her first win on Australian soil after switching her allegiance in 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the first round of the Adelaide International<\/a>, Kasatkina defeated Maria Sakkari 7-6(7), 6-4 to progress through to the round of 16.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old sealed her win with a clinical shot down the baseline off the former world No.3’s serve to help her find form ahead of the Australian Open.<\/p>\n

Watch every match from the Adelaide International, and Australian Open qualifying live and free on 9Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The world No.48 came into the Adelaide International off the back of a first round loss to Anastasia Potapova in Brisbane and was still searching for that first win in her new homeland.<\/p>\n

Kasatkina previously represented Russia before being granted permanent residency in Australia.<\/p>\n

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Upon claiming victory, Kasatkina was interviewed on court and asked how it felt to find that maiden feat.<\/p>\n

“Honestly, I was waiting for this moment all summer,” she said with a smile on Nine’s coverage.<\/p>\n

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Daria Kasatkina. \u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

“I was super nervous coming from Brisbane and losing a tough match there and then seeing the draw here and thinking, ‘oh Dasha, what did you expect from such a strong tournament?’<\/p>\n

“I am honestly over the moon right now, it’s so special, you guys (the fans) make it special, thank you so much. A super special day for me, I really wanted to finally experience this feeling of winning a match in front of a home crowd. Honestly, it feels pretty addictive.”<\/p>\n

Kasatkina added she’s always been “very, very jealous” of Australian players due to the support from fans.<\/p>\n

“They’ve got this privilege to play in front of the home crowd at a home slam, but I never expected to be one of them,” she said.<\/p>\n

Kasatkina will play Jaqueline Cristian next in the round of 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daria Kasatkina has claimed her first win on Australian soil after switching her allegiance in 2025. In the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-409090","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\/409090","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=409090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}