{"id":810862,"date":"2026-07-19T20:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810862\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T20:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T20:49:08","slug":"krejcikova-halts-greek-hopes-beats-sakkari-in-athens-for-9th-wta-singles-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810862\/","title":{"rendered":"Krejcikova halts Greek hopes, beats Sakkari in Athens for 9th WTA singles crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barbora Krejcikova spoiled the home crowd&#8217;s anticipated celebration Sunday, defeating Greek hopeful Maria Sakkari 7-6 (5), 6-3 in 1 hour and 43 minutes to win the 2026 Vanda Pharmaceuticals Athens Open.<\/p>\n<p>Sakkari jumped out to early leads in both sets &#8212; up 4-1 in the first before losing in a tiebreak, then breaking first for a 2-1 edge in the second &#8212; but Krejcikova reeled her in each time. The Czech closed by taking five of the final six games, including the last three, to seal the victory.<\/p>\n<p>The win marks Krejcikova&#8217;s ninth career WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz singles title and her first since Wimbledon in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barbora Krejcikova spoiled the home crowd&#8217;s anticipated celebration Sunday, defeating Greek hopeful Maria Sakkari 7-6 (5), 6-3 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747,83],"class_list":["post-810862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810862","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=810862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}