{"id":390803,"date":"2026-01-06T08:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/390803\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:56:12","slug":"stefanos-tsitsipas-maria-sakkari-fire-greece-into-united-cup-qfs-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/390803\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefanos Tsitsipas, Maria Sakkari fire Greece into United Cup QFs | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Match Report<br \/>\n    Tsitsipas, Sakkari fire Greece into United Cup QFs<\/p>\n<p>Both singles stars are 2-0 this week in Perth<\/p>\n<p>January 05, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>        Stefanos Tsitsipas in action at the United Cup on Monday.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p>The United Cup has its next quarter-finalist, and for the third time in the tournament\u2019s four editions, Greece will advance to the knockout round. Stefanos Tsistipas\u2019 and Maria Sakkari\u2019s three-set victories secured the Group E tie against Great Britain at the RAC Arena in Perth. Olivia Nicholls and Neal Skupski did earn a 6-2, 3-6, 10-4 mixed doubles victory for Great Britain in the final match of the tie against Despina Papamichail and Stefanos Sakellaridis.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Sakkari\u2019s 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 win over Emma Raducanu, was her first career victory against the Briton on the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz. Sakkari is now 2-0 in singles to start the season, defeating Naomi Osaka on Jan. 2 in the win over Japan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Emma, I&#8217;ve had four tough losses against her so to get that first win against her, against a great opponent, it means a lot, especially delivering for Team Greece,&#8221; Sakkari said on-court.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;He has one of the best tennis IQ&#8217;s that I&#8217;ve ever seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Team Greece combination we are here for \ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bq5IV3yuNY\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/bq5IV3yuNY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 United Cup (@UnitedCupTennis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UnitedCupTennis\/status\/2008209087855530255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Tsitsipas dug deep for a 4-6, 6-1, 7-6(4) win over Billy Harris to set the tone. 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<p>&#8220;I got fed up losing matches like that [last year],&#8221; Tsitsipas said. &#8220;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<p>&#8220;I would like to congratulate Billy. He put up an incredible performance. I haven&#8217;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tsitsipas helped Greece beat Japan in its opening United Cup tie with a win against Shintaro Mochizuki 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<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Tsitsipas, Sakkari fire Greece into United Cup QFs Both singles stars are 2-0 this week in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-390803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}