Sakkari – Azarenka 0-2: She failed her serve and was eliminated from the Rome tournament

Maria Sakkari lost to Victoria Azarenka 4-6, 1-6 in the round of 16 and exited the Rome Championship.

Without reminding Sakkari of the previous matches, the Greek tennis player bid farewell to the tournament in Rome, after learning of the defeat against Victoria Azarenka, with a score of 4-6, 1-6, in the “16th” stage of the Italian Championship.

The 28-year-old was very poor with her serve, taking six breaks throughout the match and only getting two. For her part, Azarenka was too good with the balls in her hands and with too good returns made it difficult for the Greek athlete, leading to her expulsion from the Italian Masters.

He got a break with Azarenka’s win

The first set witnessed many breaks for the player, as Azarenka opened two breaks to lead 3-0 in the first set. Maria Sakkari immediately found an answer on the Belarusian streak and three consecutive streaks evened the set.

Of course, in the seventh game, the Greek failed to hold serve and gave Azarenka the opportunity to break serve again and in the next game to take a two-game lead (5-3). Sakkari tried to find an answer again, but all she could do was reduce the score to 5-4 and then watched Azarenka close the set 6-4.

It is worth noting that in the first set Maria Sakkari was very unstable in her service games, as Victoria Azarenka found at least one break point in the first four service games of the Greek.

The serve continued to be unstable and Azarenka won

Things did not go well even in the second set for Sakkari, who with… Good evening had a break and found herself two games behind (2-0) after Azarenka took control. The Greek held serve in the third game (2-1), which was the only one for the Greek as the experienced Belarusian increased her speed and with four consecutive games made the score 6-1 to close the set and celebrate qualification to the quarter-finals. Of heroism.

In the quarter-finals, Victoria Azarenka will face Danielle Collins, who previously defeated Irina Begu 6-0, 6-3 with relative ease.