{"id":14694,"date":"2025-07-22T05:48:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T05:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14694\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T05:48:04","slug":"tennis-wta-washington-open-2025-sakkari-defeats-boulter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14694\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis, WTA \u2013 Washington Open 2025: Sakkari defeats Boulter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greek wildcard Maria Sakkari reached\u00a0the second round of the Washington Open by winning against Englishwoman Katie Boulter 6-3, 6-4 at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>She will play against American Emma Navarro, seed No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>The straight-sets win underlines Sakkari\u2019s return to form, bouncing back after a challenging season, and keeps alive her strong track record in Washington \u2013\u00a0she was the finalist here in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Sakkari is world No. 90.<\/p>\n<p>Washington WTA 500, other first-round results (William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center, hard, USD 1.282.951, most recent results first):<\/p>\n<p>Venus Williams vs. Peyton Stearns<\/p>\n<p>Naomi Osaka vs. Yulia Putintseva<\/p>\n<p>Marta Kostyuk vs. Emma Raducanu<\/p>\n<p>Hailey Baptiste vs. Sofia Kenin<\/p>\n<p>Anna Kalinskaya vs. Kamilla Rakhimova<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patrickmouratoglou.com\/en\/champion-mindset-pre-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mx-auto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Banner-Social-Media-Facebook-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"aspect-3-1 mx-auto max-w-full overflow-hidden object-cover md:max-w-xl\"\/><br \/>\n  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>McCartney Kessler vs. Caroline Dolehide<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Townsend vs. Tatjana Maria<\/p>\n<p>Magda Linette vs. Danielle Collins<\/p>\n<p>Yuliia Starodubtseva vs. Magdalena Frech: monday<\/p>\n<p>Leylah Fernandez beat Maya Joint: 6-3, 6-3<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Mboko (WC) beat Anastasia Potapova: 6-2, 6-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greek wildcard Maria Sakkari reached\u00a0the second round of the Washington Open by winning against Englishwoman Katie Boulter 6-3,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-14694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}