Maria Sakkari and Arantxa Rus will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Miami Open for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 4:00 pm on Court 3. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Maria Sakkari who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Maria Sakkari is the pick to win this match.
Maria Sakkari -> 1.28
Arantxa Rus -> 3.84
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Prediction and head to head Maria Sakkari vs. Arantxa Rus
This will be the 2nd time that Maria Sakkari and Arantxa Rus face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Sakkari (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Sakkari won 6-3 7-6(6) in the quarter in Istanbul back in 2018.
Maria Sakkari
Ranked no. 25, the Greek will start her run in Miami after she played her last match in Dubai where she lost 6-2 7-6(4) to Krejcikova in the 1st round on the 7th of March.
Sakkari has a 8-5 win-loss record in 2021, 8-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Greek’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in Abu Dhabi and Melbourne.
Talking about her overall career, Maria has an overall 322-216 record. She has a positive 150-107 record on hard.
Previously in Miami
Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2018. See her history.
Arantxa Rus
Ranked no. 84, Arantxa reached the 2nd round after defeating Marie Bouzkova 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Arantxa had a good straight sets win against Bouzkova (6-3 6-2). During the match Rus scored 66 points vs Bouzkova’s 43. Arantxa was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Rus fired 2 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Arantxa Rus lost the serve twice and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Rus put 73% of her first serves in, winning 67% (30/45) of the points behind her 1st serve and 53% (9/17) on the 2nd serve. The Dutch broke Bouzkova 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
Rus has a 2-5 win-loss record in 2021, 1-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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