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Placed with the “eight” Świątek and appearing in number 17. Sakkari are the two highest-ranked quarter-finalists of this year’s competition at the tennis courts. Roland Garros.
Both also write the history of tennis in their respective countries. The 20-year-old player from Raszyn did it last year in the French capital – no one else from Poland won the Grand Slam event in a single. Sakkari, six years her senior, was now the first Greek woman in the top eight of this rank.
They have never competed with each other before, but trained together. They compliment each other both for playing and for approaching others.
– She’s a really nice girl. She is definitely a person who fights to the end, runs great, is very fast, so it’s hard to finish replacements. You have to be very patient and precise, because he can cover a very large part of the court with his running – emphasized the charge of coach Piotr Sierzputowski.
So far, she has improved impressive statistics with each match – she won 11 games in a row in the French Open without losing a set.
Now she will try not to share the fate of the American Sofia Kenin, who is seeded with the “four”. Last year’s finalist had to recognize the superiority of the Greek woman in the previous round.
Polka and Sakkari will probably go to the central court between 1pm and 2pm. It will be the second match of the day at this facility.
On Tuesday, Świątek secured a performance in the doubles semi-final. A day later, Linette will try to join her, together with the American Bernarda Pera at approx. 13 will go out to the court. Simonne-Mathieu, the third largest facility of the complex, where the competition in the French Open takes place. Their opponents will be Russian Anastazja Pavliuczenkowa and Jelena Rybakina, representing Kazakhstan, who fought a duel for the semi-final of the single on Tuesday and the first of them was the top. Linette in the individual competition was eliminated in the third round.
Source: PAP
Creation date: June 9, 2021, 06:13
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