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Sakkari lost I also wanted Azarenka and Badosa so I am sad that they lost although I don't mind Krejcikova and Keys either. I'm very happy that Zverev lost. Sorry, I don't like him. Dimitra Pavlou of Greece lost in juniors. She had two set points in the second set but could not convert them. Anyways, I mention her because she is actually the first cousin of Maria Sakkari. I know I said it once before, but I think it's cool how much their family is involved in Greek tennis. Angeliki Kanellopoulou (Maria's mother/Dimitra's aunt) was also a top 50 player in the 1980s. 50% of Greece's top 100 WTA players are from the same family, as we only had two others besides Maria and Angeliki. However, our big talent in the girls' tournament is not Pavlou but Michaela Laki, who is the 6th seed here and won her match yesterday. She is also playing doubles with Dimitra Pavlou.

2022 Australian Open: Men's singles: Third round: (4) Stefanos Tsitsipas GRE d. Benoit Paire FRA 6-3 7-5 6-7(2) 6-4 Women's singles: Third round: (5) Maria Sakkari GRE d. (28) Veronika Kudermetova RUS 6-4 6-1 Boys' singles: First round: Constantinos Koshis CYP d. (6) Gabriel Debru FRA 6-4 4-6 6-4 Girls' singles: First round: (6) Michaela Laki GRE d. Chelsea Fontenel SUI 7-6(2) 6-0 First round: Dimitra Pavlou GRE vs. Tijana Sretenovic SRB Girls' doubles: First round: Laki/Pavlou GRE/GRE vs. (4) Hietaranta/Sierra FIN/ARG Η Βαλεντίνη Γραμματικοπουλου, ο Θοδωρής Μητσάκος, και η Δέσποινα Παπαμιχαήλ αποκλείστηκαν ήδη. Fun fact: Η Δήμητρα Παύλου είναι η πρώτη ξαδερφη της Σακκαρη

Her first and only other Australian Open R4 was 2009. She was 19 then and had two match points but lost. Very nice that after so many years she was able to make it back.

I thought she only retired from singles?

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Sakkari lost her first 7 third round matches at Grand Slam. She finally won one at the 2020 Australian Open against Keys. It is now her 5th time in the fourth round. Really impressive how much she has been able to improve in just two years!

It will be Ioannis Antoniou and Maria-Eleni Tsiovolou in alpine skiing, and Apostolos Angelis, Maria Ntanou, and Nefeli Tita in cross-country skiing. Tsiovolou (21) and Tita (18) are by far the youngest members of the Greek team, and both will be making their Olympic debuts. Antoniou competed in 2018, Angelis competed in 2014 and 2018, and Ntanou competed in 2010 and 2018. I was expecting to see 42 year old Paraskevi Ladopoulou included, but she wasn't even picked as an alternate in case someone gets COVID

It was only a matter of time... I remember at the last US Open being particularly impressed with all of the WTA seeds advancing and avoiding upsets for the first few rounds. That quickly changed of course, and we ended up with Fernandez vs Raducanu in the final

Both Greeks into the third round! It will get tougher from here, but I hope they can continue to advance. They have decent draws although they are not playing their best tennis yet in my opinion.

Badosa vs Kostyuk third round, two of the hottest girls

Yes, she is 11th and Georgiadou is 15th! It's too bad they both can't make it to the Olympics with this current qualification format. I've said this before but I really wish Vougiouka would come out of retirement for Paris, she is younger than Velikaya and Zagunis who are both still top 10. We'd have a real shot at qualifying in the team event if she can get back into good shape. Our next best sabre fencer is Marina Paizi who is ranked 165...

Ruud withdrew due to injury.

Is that "top rank by year" or "rank at the end of each year" though?

Yeah, I noticed she retired in some of her last tournaments and also had Covid recently so I'm not too surprised. Sakkari has a good draw to make the QF, and now it's even better. Unfortunately Maria did not play well today in her first round match, so she will need to improve in order to capitalise on this draw. One step at a time though...

Thank you. I remember after Orleans, Greek sports sites were reporting what rankings Gkountoura and Georgiadou would move up to, but I didn't see anything this time around. Is there a way to check old rankings? I am curious as to what Gkountoura's best ranking was. I think she was in the top 10 at some point, maybe she was 8th or 9th? It looks like the FIE site only shows your ranking at the end of the year. Also, what about Vougiouka? She was 4th or 5th I believe? At Gkountoura's age I think she has a chance to become the highest ranked Greek fencer ever.

18 year old Greek Sapfo Sakellaridi won her second consecutive ITF futures title in Egypt. She played four finals in a row in the last 4 weeks in Egypt, losing the first two and winning the next two. She also won two doubles titles and reached the finals at the other two events. In singles, she is getting close to the top 500 now. Take a look at her service motion...

Gkountoura is currently ranked 12th, so now how much will she go up after this result?

You must be new to women's tennis. Final will be something random as always, like Anisimova - Mertens or something Yeah I think it will be hard to beat Medvedev for anyone. This isn't clay. I wasn't even sure that Djokovic would beat Medvedev. Personally I think if anyone else wins besides Medvedev, people will say there is an asterisk next to this slam and that they would never have beaten Djokovic if he was able to play.

Another easy draw for Berrettini. He is still ranked in the top 10 despite only having one top 10 win since 2019... Also never beaten a top 10 player at a major, and this time he can't face a top 10 opponent until at least the semifinals...

The four slams are run by the ITF.

I'm reading that two other players have now also been sent home. I wonder who. I guess we will find out eventually.

@Henry_Leon Mitoglou is injured? He hasn't played in a very long time.

Already two of them lost in qualifying

This makes me feel embarrassed that Maria lost to Raducanu in the US Open semifinals Is it bad that I don't want Rybakina to do well because she plays for Kazakhstan (despite having nothing to do with the country besides money)? Although the regular tour isn't as bad, at the Olympics I was very against her and didn't want her to win a medal.

Monica never received justice, her attacker was free in Germany. If I remember correctly he either never did jail time or spent very little time in jail.