{"id":845080,"date":"2026-08-06T02:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T02:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/845080\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T02:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T02:14:09","slug":"sakkari-wins-opening-match-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/845080\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakkari wins opening match in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Sakkari is through to the second round at the National Bank Open in Toronto after defeating Zeynep S\u00f6nmez in straight sets 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>This was the fourth meeting between the Greek and Turk, with Sakkari up 3-1 in their head to head ledger.All of her victories have come in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>The top ranked Greek was a much stronger serve, recording five aces to none and winning her first serve at 83 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>She also won four of the eight breaks she earned while fighting off two of three against.<\/p>\n<p>The 29th seed will next face fourth seed Coco Gauff in what will be there 12th meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The American currently leads their head to head 6-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maria Sakkari is through to the second round at the National Bank Open in Toronto after defeating Zeynep&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-845080","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\/845080","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=845080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}