Tennis
Against Pegoula, Sakkari at 4am for qualifying at ‘8’
Maria Sakkari, who made an impressive start at this year’s Australian Open, will meet Jessica Pegoula at around 4am on Sunday (23/01) in the fourth round of the tournament, where she will claim qualification at 8th place.
For the second time in her career, Maria Sakkari was able to secure her presence in the fourth round of the Australian Open and will try to defend her participation in the continuation of the tournament against Jessica Pegoula (No. 21) in the early hours of Sunday (23.1.) .
The game is expected to start around 4am while this will be the third game the two will face, with the Greek champions and No. 8 in the world rankings to count equal victories in their previous two meetings, pthe Eastbourne grass 2019 and 2021 in Miami.
In fact, Sakkari remembers the 4th round of the Miami Open most vividly. She then managed to salvage five points from her opponent to take the win 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (6).
Think of the great fall of Sakkari
The Greek tennis player qualifies at “8” against it 28 year old American will meet the winner of the pair between Barty and Anisimova.
The American had reached 18th place in the ranking in November 2021, which is a record position for her. Pegula doesn’t have the best tradition in Melbourne, after being eliminated twice in qualifying, she reached the first round in 2020, while in 2021 she was eliminated in the quarterfinals.
It was the year that not only achieved his best performance, but also played very good tennis in this tournament, leaving out very experienced athletes (Azarenka, Stozur, Mladenovic, Svitolina, she was expelled by Brady). Despite its class was only slowly climbing this high in the world rankings when he was called up with two serious injuries.
To face Maria Sakkari he had to eliminate Kalinina (2-1 set), Pera (2-0 set) and Paris Diaz (2-0 set) in a row. The Spaniard even made it very difficult for her, running into her spaces while she was forced to play a lot from the baseline.
It is worth noting that her parents are Your parents are the owners of Buffalo Bills, American football team and Due to her family’s financial situation, she had the best from a young age trainer, incl and Michael Joyce for six years, who also trains Maria Sharapova.
Source: sport24
Jessica Martinez is an author at Sportish, a publication dedicated to sports news and analysis. She covers various topics related to sports and provides insightful commentary on the latest developments in the world of sports.