{"id":392776,"date":"2026-01-07T09:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/392776\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:13:09","slug":"united-states-escape-trap-set-by-greece-and-reach-final-four-tennistemple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/392776\/","title":{"rendered":"United States Escape Trap Set by Greece and Reach Final Four \u2022 TennisTemple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Crazy Scenario and an Epic Super Tie-Break: United States Nearly Exited Before Prevailing Over Greece. A Gutsy Victory That Sends Them to United Cup Semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767771263473.webp.webp\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"United Cup: United States Escape Trap Set by Greece and Reach Final Four\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 COLIN MURTY \/ AFP<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1759296364225.webp.webp\" alt=\"Adrien Guyot\" class=\"author-photo-main\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p> 2 min to read<\/p>\n<p>The first quarterfinal delivered its verdict in Perth. The United States, defending champions, faced Greece and hoped to reach the final four for the third time in four editions.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the day, Coco Gauff faced Maria Sakkari. This was the 11th meeting between the two women on the WTA tour. The score was tied at 5 wins each before this match.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff, who had been surprised by Jessica Bouzas Maneiro in the group stage, wanted to redeem herself against a Sakkari in top form, having taken down Osaka and Raducanu since the start of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>But the American found her rhythm and won in two sets (6-3, 6-2 in 1h25). Taylor Fritz could thus take advantage to send his country to the semifinals with a win against Stefanos Tsitsipas.<\/p>\n<p>USA Prevail in Decisive Mixed Doubles and Eliminate Greece<\/p>\n<p>But Fritz still doesn&#8217;t seem at 100% physically. Affected by a knee issue, the world No. 9 couldn&#8217;t perform at his best level during his loss to Sebastian Baez.<\/p>\n<p>He had responded by dominating Jaume Munar in a nail-biter in his previous match. But against Tsitsipas, the American couldn&#8217;t follow up. The Greek dominated his opponent of the day for the fourth time in six meetings (6-4, 7-5 in 1h21), securing his first win against a top 20 player since the 2024 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>It was therefore after the decisive mixed doubles that the two countries were separated. In a thrilling finish, the pair Coco Gauff\/Christian Harrison overcame the one composed of Maria Sakkari and Stefanos Tsitsipas (4-6, 6-4, 10-8 in 1h29).<\/p>\n<p>The Americans had a big scare in the super tie-break of the third set, as they led 6 points to 1 and 9 points to 6, before winning 10 points to 8. The USA are still in contention to defend their title and will face Australia or Poland in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p> Derni\u00e8re modification le 07\/01\/2026 \u00e0 07h54 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Crazy Scenario and an Epic Super Tie-Break: United States Nearly Exited Before Prevailing Over Greece. A Gutsy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-392776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392776","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=392776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}