Unseeded Sakkari was lost for words after her 2-6 6-4 7-5 triumph over top seed Swiatek. <\/p>\n
Having reached a career-high of world number three four years ago, Sakkari has since fallen to number 52 and is without a tournament win since March 2024. <\/p>\n
But after a nervous opening set Sakkari recovered to book her place in the last four.<\/p>\n
“I’m speechless because it’s been a while since I had a big win like today,” she said.<\/p>\n
“When you drop in the rankings and you’re not playing good tennis, you start doubting yourself. <\/p>\n
“You’re thinking that you’re never going to beat those players again.”<\/p>\n
The Greek will take on Czech Karolina Muchova in the other semi-final, after the 14th seed swept past Russia’s Anna Kalinskaya 6-3 6-4.<\/p>\n
Latvian Ostapenko beat another unseeded player, Elisabetta Cocciaretto of Italy, 7-5 6-4, in her quarter-final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unseeded Sakkari was lost for words after her 2-6 6-4 7-5 triumph over top seed Swiatek. Having reached…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-472743","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\/472743","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=472743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}