Tennis
The schedule for Maria Sakkari includes events in the WTA 1000, WTA 500 & Grand Slams. In the last 12 months, Maria Sakkari has participated in 5 events listed on Koobit. You can find the schedule of upcoming events below.
Maria Sakkari is a tennis player from Greece.
The daughter of top-50 women's singles player Angelikí Kanellopoúlou, Sakkari is the highest ranked female player from her country since WTA singles rankings were first compiled.
Sakkari first started playing tennis as a child, and by 18 was living in Barcelona so she could intensify her training. Her WTA-level debut came in 2015, when she progressed through the qualifying rounds of the US Open. Continuing her record of achieving personal firsts on the biggest stages, Sakkari got her first WTA-level win a few months later, at the 2016 Australian Open. By 2017, Sakkari had nearly broken into the top-50, and had made the third round at 3 of the 4 Grand Slams. The 2018 season then brought the Greek her first WTA-level final, but she had to wait until 2019 to win her first title, doing so at the Morocco Open.
Since then, Sakkari has reached the fourth round of the Australian Open, and in 2021 reached the semifinals of both Roland-Garros and the US Open. Sakkari ended the 2021 season ranked inside the top 10; in doing so, she qualified for the end-of-year WTA Finals.
Maria Sakkari is known for her powerful, all-court playing style. She hits aggressive groundstrokes, and is particularly potent on hard court and clay surfaces. Despite not being a tall player, Sakkari's serve is incredibly good, allowing her to hit a very high number of aces.
The experience at this WTA 500 tournament was great...even though it was just the qualifiers but the atmosphere was really awesome!
It was a good experience and the crowd management was pretty good, except for foreigners who attended with passport verification. It was not so convenient to reenter the Diamond Court without being escorted by the friend who booked the tickets on our behalf. The ushers at the gate kept on insisting to check the original booking on the mini app, and passport verification was not sufficient.
It was an amazing experience being the first time in China. The event was well organized, and the courts were clean. Watching the top players live was out of this world.
It was an experience of a lifetime, unforgettable. The only thing we would have loved is the use of Visa instead of drawing cash as some of us travelled far, we came from South Africa. We will definitely attend again
Very well organised n helpful staff
As usual the organisation and players were great. Unfortunately I have the same ‘complaint’ as I have voiced by emails previously. I accompany a person with disability and the first time we were seated in the North stand area for disability seating the chairs provided were good. Last year and this year they are not suitable. To hard and not easy for anyone to push themselves up from. I did observe that the good chairs are still being used in the lower east court side section. So therefor I see no reason why these cannot also be provided or at least given as an option to persons with disabilities! Frankly even I have suffered from a sore back today even though we brought cushions to help and I do not have a disability. It would also be polite to have at least an acknowlefgement of this correspondence.
