![]() “Being nice to myself was one of the most important things I’ve changed this year, being nice during the games and the matches.” ![]() ![]() “I was very hard on myself up until this year … Growing, and also getting older and more mature, you see certain things different. “I’m very proud of myself and my team that we actually made it to the Finals for the first time, and for the first time in the history of Greece for a female tennis player,” Sakkari said. Sakkari, who will face Simona Halep in the last eight, continues a breakthrough season where she finished runner-up at the WTA 500 event in Ostrava, Czech Republic and reached the semifinals at the French and the US Open majors. Sakkari edged past Russia’s Anna Kalinskaya in the second round on Thursday, taking the first set 6-2 before Kalinskaya retired in the second set which Sakkari was leading 1-0. Greece’s Maria Sakkari will make her debut at the WTA Finals after the 26-year-old qualified for the season-ending championships after reaching the quarterfinals at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow. ![]()
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