Maria Sakkari

2016, 2017

Sakkari won her second match in a WTA tournament at the Istanbul Cup by defeating the top seed Anna Karolína Schmiedlová. After beating Su-Wei Hsieh, she reached her first WTA quarterfinal. She reached her first WTA semifinal at the Wuhan Open by beating Caroline Wozniacki, Elena Vesnina and Alizé Cornet, losing to Caroline Garcia. This success propelled her into the top 50 of the world rankings.

In 2017 she reached the third round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time at the Australian Open, and reached the same stage at Wimbledon and the US Open, where she defeated the seeded Kiki Bertens but was eliminated by Venus Williams.

2018: First WTA Premier Final, Debut in Top 40

Sakkari started 2018 season by four-first round losses, against Danka Kovinic in (Shenzhen, China), Katerina Siniakova at Australian Open, Julia Gorges in (St. Petersburg, Russia) and Sorana Cirstea in (Doha, Qatar). In (Acapulco, Mexico) she made her first win in 2018 season defeated Lara Arruabarrena in first round, but in second round she lost against Stefanie Vogele. More success Sakkari had in (Indian Wells, United States) where she made 3 wins against Donna Vekic, 16th seed Ashleigh Barty and 17th seed CoCo Vandeweghe, respectively. She lost in 4th round against later champion of this tournament Naomi Osaka. In (Miami, United States) she defeated Aleksandra Krunic and 28th seed Anett Kontaveit and reached third round, but then she lost against Monica Puig.

Sakkari started clay-court season by reaching her first semifinal in 2018 in (Istanbul, Turkey) where she defeated Cagla Buyukakcay, Aleksandra Krunic and Arantxa Rus, respectively, but then she lost against Polona Hercog. In (Madrid, Spain) she lost in first round against Kiki Bertens. In (Rome, Italy) she defeated Kiki Bertens in first round and then in second round she made her second win against Top 10 player defeated Karolina Pliskova. In third she lost against Angelique Kerber. At the French Open she reached third round defeated Mandy Minella and Carla Suarez Navarro and then she completed third rounds at all of Grand Slams.

Sakkari lost all of her matches at grass-court season. She was defeated by Julia Gorges in (Birmingham, United Kingdom), (Svetlana Kuznetsova in Eastbourne), United Kingdom and at Wimbledon against Sofia Kenin.

Her first WTA finals, Sakkari made at (San Jose, United States) defeated Christina Mchale, Timea Babos, 3rd seed Venus Williams, Danielle Collins and then he lost in final against Mihaela Buzarnescu. On 6th August she reached a career-high ranking of No. 31.

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 2018	Bank of the West Classic, United States	Premier	Hard	Mihaela Buzărnescu	1–6, 0–6

Singles: 17 (7 titles, 10 runners–up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 2011	ITF Athens, Greece	10,000	Clay	Deniz Khazaniuk	6–1, 3–6, 3–6
Loss	0–2	Sep 2012	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Hard	Ana Bogdan	3–6, 2–6
Loss	0–3	Sep 2013	ITF Mytilini, Greece	10,000	Hard	Klaartje Liebens	1–6, 2–6
Loss	0–4	Sep 2013	ITF Athens, Greece	10,000	Hard	Aminat Kushkova	0–6, 5–7
Loss	0–5	Apr 2014	ITF Heraklion, Greece	10,000	Hard	Pernilla Mendesová	2–6, 2–6
Win	1–5	Apr 2014	ITF Heraklion, Greece	10,000	Hard	Despina Papamichail	6–1, 1–6, 6–3
Loss	1–6	May 2014	ITF Båstad, Sweden	10,000	Clay	Conny Perrin	5–7, 1–6
Win	2–6	May 2014	ITF Båstad, Sweden	10,000	Clay	Carolin Daniels	7–5, 6–2
Win	3–6	Jun 2014	ITF Niš, Serbia	10,000	Clay	Dea Herdželaš	3–6, 6–4, 6–1
Loss	3–7	Jun 2014	ITF Toruń, Poland	25,000	Clay	Barbora Krejčíková	4–6, 1–6
Win	4–7	Jul 2014	ITF Tampere, Finland	10,000	Clay	Anastasia Pivovarova	6–4, 7–5
Loss	4–8	Aug 2014	ITF Savitaipale, Finland	10,000	Clay	Emma Laine	3–6, 7–5, 0–6
Win	5–8	Mar 2015	ITF Heraklion, Greece	10,000	Hard	Anastasiya Komardina	6–4, 6–3
Win	6–8	Mar 2015	ITF Heraklion, Greece	10,000	Hard	Valentini Grammatikopoulou	6–2, 6–2
Win	7–8	May 2015	ITF Maribor, Slovenia	25,000	Clay	Rebecca Peterson	3–6, 6–2, 6–2
Loss	7–9	May 2016	ITF Saint-Gaudens, France	50,000 + H	Clay	Irina Khromacheva	6–1, 6–7(3–7), 1–6
Loss	7–10	Jun 2016	ITF Szeged, Hungary	50,000	Clay	Viktoriya Tomova	6–4, 0–6, 4–6

Doubles: 9 (5 titles, 4 runners–up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 2013	ITF Athens, Greece	10,000	Hard	Lee Pei-chi	Keren Shlomo Saray Sterenbach	6–3, 1–6, [8–10]
Loss	0–2	Apr 2014	ITF Heraklion, Greece	10,000	Hard	Despina Papamichail	Natela Dzalamidze Valentini Grammatikopoulou	7–6, 3–6, [5–10]
Win	1–2	May 2014	ITF Båstad, Sweden	10,000	Clay	Kim Grajdek	Dea Herdželaš Conny Perrin	7–5, 6–4
Win	2–2	Jun 2014	ITF Niš, Serbia	10,000	Clay	Alexandra Nancarrow	Lina Gjorcheska Marina Lazić	6–3, 6–0
Win	3–2	Jul 2014	ITF Tampere, Finland	10,000	Clay	Alexandra Nancarrow	Emma Laine Anastasia Pivovarova	6–2, 6–3
Loss	3–3	Aug 2014	ITF Savitaipale, Finland	10,000	Clay	Alexandra Nancarrow	Emma Laine Diana Bogoliy	4–6, 6–7
Win	4–3	Sep 2014	ITF Madrid, Spain	10,000	Hard	Inés Ferrer Suárez	Yvonne Cavallé Reimers Lucía Cervera Vázquez	6–2, 3–6, [11–9]
Loss	4–4	Aug 2015	ITF Bad Saulgau, Germany	25,000	Clay	Despina Papamichail	Cristina Dinu Diana Buzean	6–2, 3–6, [8–10]
Win	5–4	Nov 2015	ITF Dubai, UAE	75,000	Hard	Çağla Büyükakçay	Elise Mertens İpek Soylu	7–6(8–6), 6–4

Singles