{"id":287018,"date":"2023-08-28T23:35:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T23:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=287018"},"modified":"2023-08-28T23:35:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T23:35:36","slug":"maria-sakkari-complains-about-pot-smoke-in-upset-loss-at-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/tennis\/maria-sakkari-complains-about-pot-smoke-in-upset-loss-at-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Sakkari complains about pot smoke in upset loss at US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>US Open Roundup: Eighth-seeded Maria Sakkari complains about &#8216;weed&#8217; smoke wafting in from the crowd in upset loss as No. 4 seed Holger Rune is stunned by Spain&#8217;s\u00a0 Carballes Baena<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Spaniard Rebeka Masarova downed eighth-seeded Maria Sakkari 6-4, 6-4<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sakkari complained about the smell of pot. Marijuana is legal in New York<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>DailyMail.com provides all the latest international sports news<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Long known for noisy spectators and noisier LaGuardia Airport, the US Open is now offering a new distraction to tennis stars: The odor of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>Spaniard Rebeka Masarova downed eighth-seeded Maria Sakkari 6-4, 6-4, with the Greek star complaining afterward that she was bothered by the smell of marijuana during her loss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The smell, oh my gosh,&#8217;\u00a0Sakkari said to the chair umpire in the first set. &#8216;It was weed.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Recreational pot has been legal in New York State since 2022, but the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center is a smoke-free facility, so whomever was smoking was in jeopardy of being ejected. USTA spokespeople did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com&#8217;s request for further information.<\/p>\n<p>Sakkari&#8217;s second-hand smoking was hardly the only upset on the first day in Queens, where No. 4 seed Holger Rune suffered a shocking first-round ouster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/28\/22\/74809459-12454663-image-a-21_1693257977182.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Maria Sakkari of Greece cools off between sets against Rebeka Masarova of Spain<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/28\/22\/74809657-12454663-image-a-22_1693258231886.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Spaniard Rebeka Masarova (right) downed eighth-seeded Maria Sakkari (left) 6-4, 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Spaniard Roberto Carballes Baena, ranked 63rd, downed Rune 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, on Monday for his first-ever victory over a top-10 player. The 20-year-old Dane reached the quarterfinals of the French Open and Wimbledon to break into the top five.<\/p>\n<p>On the women&#8217;s side, No. 1-ranked defending champion Iga Swiatek needed just 58 minutes to beat Swede Rebecca Peterson 6-0, 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>Tenth-seeded American Frances Tiafoe, a 25-year-old from Maryland who reached the semifinal at last year&#8217;s U.S. Open, had little trouble in a 6-2, 7-5, 6-1, victory over wild-card countryman Learner Tien.<\/p>\n<p>Dominic Thiem, the 2020 champion who is unseeded this year, downed 25th-seeded Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-2, 6-4. Thiem, an Austrian who had lost his previous seven Grand Slam matches dating to the 2021 Australian Open, next faces American Ben Shelton, who defeated Argentine Pedro Cachin in four sets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/28\/22\/74809687-12454663-image-a-23_1693258275995.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>No. 4 seed Holger Rune became the tournament&#8217;s first big upset victim on Sunday in Queens<\/p>\n<p>Still to come are matches with Coco Gauff on the women&#8217;s side, and Novak Djokovic on the men&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff, a 19-year-old from Florida, faces Laura Siegemund of Germany, who won the women&#8217;s doubles title in New York three years ago. Gauff was the runner-up at the French Open in singles \u2014 losing to Swiatek \u2014 and doubles in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Wrapping things up in the main stadium will be 23-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic against Alexandre Muller of France, who is making his U.S. Open debut. It marks a return to the event for Djokovic, who missed it last year because he couldn&#8217;t travel to the United States as a foreigner who is not vaccinated against COVID-19. That rule has been dropped.<\/p>\n<p>The first round is played over Monday and Tuesday. The tournament lasts two weeks and wraps up with the women&#8217;s singles final on September 9, and the men&#8217;s singles final on September 10.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/article-12454663\/US-Open-marijuana-pot-weed-Sakkari-rune-fritz.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>US Open Roundup: Eighth-seeded Maria Sakkari complains about &#8216;weed&#8217; smoke wafting in from the crowd in upset loss as No. 4 seed Holger Rune is <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/tennis\/maria-sakkari-complains-about-pot-smoke-in-upset-loss-at-us-open\/\" title=\"Maria Sakkari complains about pot smoke in upset loss at US Open\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Maria Sakkari complains about pot smoke in upset loss at US Open - Sportstoft<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/tennis\/maria-sakkari-complains-about-pot-smoke-in-upset-loss-at-us-open\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maria Sakkari complains about pot smoke in upset loss at US Open - Sportstoft\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"US Open Roundup: Eighth-seeded Maria Sakkari complains about &#8216;weed&#8217; 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