{"id":730274,"date":"2026-08-07T09:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T09:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730274\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T09:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T09:24:31","slug":"sakkari-wins-opening-match-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730274\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakkari wins opening match in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Sakkari is through to the second round at the National Bank Open in Toronto after defeating Zeynep S\u00f6nmez in straight sets 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>This was the fourth meeting between the Greek and Turk, with Sakkari up 3-1 in their head to head ledger.All of her victories have come in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>The top ranked Greek was a much stronger serve, recording five aces to none and winning her first serve at 83 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>She also won four of the eight breaks she earned while fighting off two of three against.<\/p>\n<p>The 29th seed will next face fourth seed Coco Gauff in what will be there 12th meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The American currently leads their head to head 6-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maria Sakkari is through to the second round at the National Bank Open in Toronto after defeating Zeynep&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-730274","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\/730274","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=730274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}