Match Report
\n Tsitsipas moves Greece closer to United Cup QFs<\/p>\n
Sakkari will face Great Britain’s Raducanu in the second match of the Group E tie in Perth<\/p>\n
January 05, 2026<\/p>\n
Getty Images<\/p>\n
Stefanos Tsitsipas in action at the United Cup on Monday.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/a> moved Greece to within one win of reaching the United Cup<\/a> quarter-finals on Monday in Perth. The 27-year-old defeated Great Britain\u2019s Billy Harris<\/a> 4-6, 6-1, 7-6(4).<\/p>\n 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 “I got fed up losing matches like that [last year],” Tsitsipas said. “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 “I would like to congratulate Billy. He put up an incredible performance. I haven’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.”<\/p>\n Tsitsipas helped Greece beat Japan in its opening United Cup<\/a> tie with a win against Shintaro Mochizuki<\/a> 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 Maria Sakkari will face Emma Raducanu in the second match of the Group E tie. If Sakkari triumphs, Greece will qualify for the quarter-finals as group winners.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Tsitsipas moves Greece closer to United Cup QFs Sakkari will face Great Britain’s Raducanu in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-353523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}