{"id":477880,"date":"2026-02-13T18:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/477880\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T18:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:35:19","slug":"sakkari-reaches-qatar-open-semi-finals-with-comeback-win-over-swiatek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/477880\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakkari reaches Qatar Open semi-finals with comeback win over Swiatek"},"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\/02\/sakkari-2.jpg\" alt=\"Sakkari reaches Qatar Open semi-finals with comeback win over Swiatek\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sakkari-2-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[Ibraheem Al Omari\/ Reuters]<\/p>\n<p>Tennis star Maria Sakkari secured her place in the Qatar Open semifinals with a comeback victory over world No. 2 Iga Swiatek.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked No. 52, Sakkari secured her first win over the Polish player since 2021, having lost the last four matches without winning a set.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year old Greek champion will now face either Karolina Muchov\u00e1 or Anna Kalinskaya in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Ibraheem Al Omari\/ Reuters] Tennis star Maria Sakkari secured her place in the Qatar Open semifinals with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,18935,85,747],"class_list":["post-477880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-maria-sakkari","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477880","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=477880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}