{"id":390019,"date":"2026-01-05T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/390019\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:00:07","slug":"tsitsipas-sakkari-fire-greece-into-united-cup-qfs-news-article-united-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/390019\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsitsipas, Sakkari fire Greece into United Cup QFs | News Article | United Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Cup has its next quarter-finalist, and for the third time in the tournament\u2019s four editions, Greece will advance to the knockout round. Stefanos Tsistipas\u2019 and Maria Sakkari\u2019s three-set victories secured the Group E tie against Great Britain at the RAC Arena in Perth. Olivia Nicholls and Neal Skupski did earn a 6-2, 3-6, 10-4 mixed doubles victory for Great Britain in the final match of the tie against Despina Papamichail and Stefanos Sakellaridis.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Sakkari\u2019s 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 win over Emma Raducanu, was her first career victory against the Briton on the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz. Sakkari is now 2-0 in singles to start the season, defeating Naomi Osaka on Jan. 2 in the win over Japan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Emma, I&#8217;ve had four tough losses against her so to get that first win against her, against a great opponent, it means a lot, especially delivering for Team Greece,&#8221; Sakkari said on-court.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;He has one of the best tennis IQ&#8217;s that I&#8217;ve ever seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Team Greece combination we are here for \ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bq5IV3yuNY\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/bq5IV3yuNY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 United Cup (@UnitedCupTennis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UnitedCupTennis\/status\/2008209087855530255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Tsitsipas dug deep for a 4-6, 6-1, 7-6(4) win over Billy Harris to set the tone. In a hard-fought battle, Tsitsipas rallied after a slow start to give Greece a 1-0 lead. The 27-year-old struggled to find his range on his backhand throughout the two-hour, 15-minute clash, but inflicted enough damage on his forehand and held his nerve in the third-set tie-break to triumph.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got fed up losing matches like that [last year],&#8221; Tsitsipas said. &#8220;I lost one in September and I just tried everything in my power to not have the same thing happen again. I am grateful to overcome that. It had a crazy energy out here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to congratulate Billy. He put up an incredible performance. I haven&#8217;t played such a high quality match in such a long time. He did great, pushing me to my limits. I think matches like that are great for the sport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tsitsipas helped Greece beat Japan in its opening United Cup tie with a win against Shintaro Mochizuki and now holds an 8-2 singles record at the mixed-teams event. It is the first time the No. 36 player in the PIF ATP Rankings has earned consecutive wins since Barcelona last April, when he reached the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United Cup has its next quarter-finalist, and for the third time in the tournament\u2019s four editions, Greece&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-390019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390019","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=390019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}