Angeliki Kanellopoulou ( el, Αγγελική Κανελλοπούλου; born 18 December 1965) is a Greek former

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

player who competed on the

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. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 43 in April 1987. During her career, she twice reached the third round of the

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. She competed in the

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multiple times and participated in the tennis demonstration in the

1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the secon ...

, reaching the quarterfinals. Another career highlight was reaching the finals of the 1986 Athens Trophy, where she lost to

Sylvia Hanika Sylvia Hanika (born 30 November 1959) is a former professional tennis player from Germany. She is best remembered for finishing runner-up at the French Open in 1981, and for winning the Year End Championships in 1982. She was ranked as high as N ...

. Kanellopoulou is the mother of pro tennis player

Maria Sakkari Maria Sakkari ( gr, Μαρία Σάκκαρη, ; born 25 July 1995) is a Greek professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 3 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), which she first achieved on 21 March 2022, making her ...

WTA career finals

Singles: 1 (0–1)

ITF Finals

Singles (2–0)

Doubles (0–1)

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* * * 1965 births Greek female tennis players Sportspeople from Athens Living people Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Greece Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Greece Mediterranean Games medalists in tennis Competitors at the 1987 Mediterranean Games {{Greece-tennis-bio-stub