Who are Maria Sakkari parents?
Maria Sakkari is a professional tennis player who won one singles title on the WTA Tour at the 2019 Morocco Open. Discover who Maria Sakkari parents are below;
Maria Sakkari Biography
Sakkari was born in Athens in 1995.
Her ethnicity is Arvanites while Leo is her zodiac sign.
She was introduced to tennis at age 6 and moved to Barcelona at age 18 in order to train. Growing up, her favourite players were Serena Williams, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.
She did her schooling from Vellios School of Art. Later, she moved to Barcelona, Spain to pursue her career in tennis. As a junior, she participated in many competitions and won most of them.
She made her career debut for the Greece Fed Cup in 2012 and made her career Grand Slam debut at the US Open 2015. Likewise, she reached her 1st WTA semifinal at the Wuhan but lost to Carolina Garcia.
In 2016, following a first-round win at 2016 Wimbledon, she crashed out in the second round. However, she made it to the top 100 of the WTA rankings for the first time after Grand Slam.
By the end of 2017, she was in the top 50 of the WTA rankings. In 2018, she reached her first-ever WTA final, and in 2019, she won her first WTA title beating Johanna Konta in the finals of the Morocco Open.
In 2020, she had her best performance at the Australian Open, where she reached the fourth round The same year, she also reached the top 20 of the WTA rankings. In 2021, she made it to the first-ever Grand Slam semi-final at the 2021 French Open.
She has an estimated net worth of $1 million as of 2020.
Her siblings include her brother, Yannis, and sister, Amanda.
She is also active in the social media platform with around 167k followers on her Instagram: @sakkattack7 and around 18k followers on her Twitter: @mariasakkari
Maria Sakkari is dating the son of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Her boyfriend comes from one of Greece’s most powerful political families.
According to Maria, the pair started dating in 2020. During the US Open in September 2021, she told Greek TV channel Alpha.
Moreover, she has featured her boyfriend on her Instagram on his birthday, which falls in August.
Before, she was linked to Greek tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas. However, the pair never mentioned dating publicly.
Who are Maria Sakkari parents?
Maria Sakkari was born to her mother, Angelikí Kanellopoúlou and father, Konstantinos Sakkaris.
Her mother is a former top-50 tennis player and competed on the WTA Tour. Her parents introduced her to tennis
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