History for Greece! Maria Sakkari Qualifies for WTA Finals
By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Thursday October 21, 2021For the first time in history, a Greek woman has qualified for the WTA Finals.Maria Sakkari made it official on Thursday, becoming the fifth woman to qualify for this year’s WTA Finals Guadalajara, joining Ash Barty, Aryna Sabalenka, Barbora Krecjikova and Karolina Pliskova.
CLINCHED 🇬🇷@mariasakkari is the first Greek woman to qualify for the year-end championships and takes spot No.5️⃣ in this year's @WTAFinals 🙌@Porsche | #RaceToTheWTAFinals pic.twitter.com/Cc0Ty2gQa6
— wta (@WTA) October 21, 2021
Three doubles team qualified, Three Spots Left OpenOn Monday it was announced that Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Demi Schuurs, Elise Mertens and Hsieh Su-Wei and Samantha Stosur and Zhang Shuai have secured qualification for the 2021 Akron WTA Finals Guadalajara.Those three pairs join Czech pairing of Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova and the all-Japanese partnership of Shuko Aoyama and Ena Shibahara in the doubles field, leaving three qualification places to be claimed. ]]>
