Tennis
Sakkari – Zheng 2-1: It lasted three sets and he made the first move in Doha
Maria Sakkari (No. 7) advances to the round of 16 of the Qatar Open after beating Qingwen Zheng (No. 24) 2-1 (6-2, 3-6, 6-3). The game lasted more than two hours.
A few 24 hours after her painful elimination in the semifinals of the WTA 250 tournament in Leeds by Petra Martic, Maria Sakkari started her duties at the 500 tournament in Doha with her right hand.
The 27-year-old Greek beat world No. 24 tennis player Qingwen Zheng, responding and qualifying for the ’16’ best of the Qatar Open, winning her 9th win in 2023.
After a two-hour match, she defeated the 21-year-old Chinese 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 and is awaiting Karolina Pliskova’s match with Ekaterina Alexandrova to find out her next opponent.
This was Sakkari’s first win of the year against a top 25 tennis player and came at the right time to boost her morale after a very poor result in Austria and with the big tournaments just around the corner.
To eliminate Zheng, No. 5 on the table in Doha, she had to win 50/73 points behind her serve and keep it intact in both the 1st and 3rd sets of the game.
If you exclude the 2nd part of the match, where Maria blacked out and made a lot of mistakes, which allowed her opponent to recover, her performance was generally good.
Sakkari ended the match with 4/7 break point opportunities, which if she had been more careful could have won much sooner as she led by a set and a break (6-2, 2-1).
However, she lost the next five (!) games, losing the 2nd set and Zeng was on course to claim victory. What she failed against Martic a few days ago, Maria did against the 21-year-old.
She played a solid 3rd set, withstood the pressure from the Chinese (saving two break points at 3-1) and ‘finished’ the match with nerves of steel, completing the very demanding test of her debut at the Qatar Open.
Source: Tennis24.gr
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American Jovic, at the age of 18, reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open for the first time, where she will play Sabalenka.
American tennis player Iva Jovic has reached the quarterfinals of the Grand Slam tournament in Australia.
In the 1/8 final match, Jovich, who received the 29th seed, beat the representative of Kazakhstan, Yulia Putintseva, with a score of 6:0, 6:1. The meeting lasted 54 minutes.
According to Opta Ace, 18-year-old Jovic repeated the result of her eminent compatriot Venus Williams from 1998, reaching the quarterfinals of the Australian Open in women’s singles without losing games. Earlier, the young athlete knocked out the representative of the top 10, Italian Jasmine Paolini, from the tournament bracket. In the next round of the competition, Jovic will play against world number one Aryna Sabalenka from Belarus.
Grand Slam Tournament. Australian Open. Melbourne (Australia). Hard. Total prize fund: about $75 million
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Iva Jovic (USA, 29) – Yulia Putintseva (Kazakhstan) – 6:0, 6:1
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The last 16 matches of the 2026 Australian Open will be played in the first half of the women’s singles on January 25.
They started fighting at 07:00. Coco Gauff (USA, WTA 3) and Carolina Muchova (Czech Republic, WTA 19).
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This is the fifth head-to-head meeting between the rivals. The score is 4:0 in favor of Coco.
The winner of the fight will face Elina Svitolina or Mirra Andreeva in the quarter-finals.
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18-year-old Jovich swept Putintseva off the field and reached the quarter-finals of the Aus Open
18 year old American tennis player Iva Jovic (WTA 27), reached the quarter-finals of the 2026 Australian Open.
In the fourth round, the young American defeated the representative of Kazakhstan. Yulia Putintseva (WTA 94) in 53 minutes.
Australian Open 2026. 1/8 final
Yulia Putintseva (Kazakhstan) – Iva Jovic (AMERICA) [29] – 0:6, 1:6
Jovic had her first head-to-head match against Putintseva. Her next opponent will be world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, who defeated Victoria Mboko in their fourth round match.
Iva reached the quarter-finals of the Grand Slam tournament for the first time in her career. This will also be Jovic’s fourth quarter-final at Tour level.
Besides Putintseva, Jovic also beat Katie Volynets, Priscilla Hong and Jasmine Paolini in Melbourne. He has 11 wins in 2026 (Auckland semi-final and Hobart final) – his best figure on the Tour.
Iva became the youngest tennis player to reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Open women’s singles without losing a set since Venus Williams in 1998.
Jovic also became the youngest tennis player to reach the quarter-finals in her first three tournaments in the calendar year since Maria Sharapova in 2005.
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