{"id":779564,"date":"2026-09-23T03:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779564\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T03:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:30:12","slug":"sakkari-overcomes-slow-start-to-defeat-fruhvirtova-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779564\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakkari overcomes slow start to defeat Fruhvirtova in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Sakkari recovered from an early break to secure a straight-sets victory over Linda Fruhvirtova in the first round at the Singapore Tennis Open, winning 6\u20134, 6\u20131 in one hour and 25 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek former world No. 3 initially found herself on the back foot as Fruhvirtova made an early breakthrough. Sakkari, however, steadied her game to edge a tight opening set before taking control of the match in the second.<\/p>\n<p>Sakkari pulled away late, dropping just one game in the second set to seal her place in the next round.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old produced three aces and won 76 per cent of points behind her first serve, while landing 61 per cent of her first serves.<\/p>\n<p>The victory gives Sakkari a positive start to her Singapore campaign as she looks to progress further in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>She will next face Japan\u2019s Nao Hibino in the second round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maria Sakkari recovered from an early break to secure a straight-sets victory over Linda Fruhvirtova in the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-779564","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\/779564","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=779564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}