{"id":422451,"date":"2026-02-12T21:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/422451\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:44:08","slug":"qatar-open-no-1-seed-iga-swiatek-loses-to-unseeded-maria-sakkari-to-crash-out-at-quarter-final-stage-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/422451\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar Open: No 1 seed Iga Swiatek loses to unseeded Maria Sakkari to crash out at quarter-final stage | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World No 2 Iga Swiatek has been dumped out of the Qatar Open after losing 2-6 6-4 7-5 to Maria Sakkari in a shock quarter-final upset.<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek &#8211; the top seed in the competition &#8211; got off to a routine start in a dominant 33-minute first set, but the world No 52 Sakkari battled back, forcing a decider as she claimed her first set in five matches against the Pole.<\/p>\n<p>Sakkari was made to pay for a missed match point at 5-2 in the deciding set when Swiatek won three straight games to bring the match back to level.<\/p>\n<p>Her opponent, though, held her own serve and then claimed the crucial break in the final game to book her place in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek will next face the winner of the quarter-final between Karolina Muchova and Anna Kalinskaya as she looks to win a third WTA singles title and first since 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World No 2 Iga Swiatek has been dumped out of the Qatar Open after losing 2-6 6-4 7-5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-422451","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\/422451","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=422451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}