Having won a confident victory over Barbora Strykova, Maria Sakkari her commitments to the tournament in Rome. It took the Greek tennis player 80 minutes to overcome the obstacle of the 37-year-old Czech with a score of 6-1, 6-3 and reach the 3rd round.where she will face either Canadian Bianca Andreescu or Czech Marketa Vodrusova.

A characteristic feature of the match was that Sakkari had 6/10 break points, and in the 2nd game of the second set (and after Strykova served for the first time) she was at 0-40, but returned after three draws performed her service. She then took four more games in a row, and although her opponent’s score was reduced to 5-3, Sakkari “closed” the match with another break.

Source: RES-IPE