Maria Sakkari and Kamilla Rakhimova will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Cincinnati Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 5:00 PM on Court 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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 -> 1.41
Kamilla Rakhimova -> 2.89
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Prediction and head to head Maria Sakkari vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
This will be the 4th time that Maria Sakkari and Kamilla Rakhimova square off. The head to head is 3-0 for Sakkari (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Sakkari won 6-3 0-6 7-6(7) in the 2nd round in at the Wimbledon back in July 2026.
Maria Sakkari
19 - 16win/loss
33
3
LWLWWLWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 23-20 | 16-11 | 3-5 | 2-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 25-29 | 14-19 | 7-5 | 1-1 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 25-17 | 12-8 | 11-6 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-25 | 26-17 | 5-4 | 3-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-23 | 21-12 | 8-5 | 4-2 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 32, the Greek will start her run in Cincinnati after she played her last match in Toronto where she lost 6-1 6-4 to Gauff in the 3rd round on the 7th of August.
Maria has a compiled 18-16 win-loss record in 2026, 13-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Greek’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in Athens.
Talking about her overall career, Maria has an overall 498-341 record. She has a positive 251-179 record on hard.
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2019 and 2020. See her history.
Kamilla Rakhimova
18 - 23win/loss
76
60
LWWLWLWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 24-27 | 19-17 | 2-5 | 0-1 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 32-33 | 12-21 | 7-8 | 5-0 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-34 | 26-23 | 9-9 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-30 | 20-14 | 11-11 | 1-2 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-27 | 14-12 | 6-10 | 10-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 83, Kamilla reached the 2nd round after defeating Kimberly Birrell 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Uzbek had a good straight sets win against Birrell (6-2 6-2). During the match Rakhimova scored 67 points vs Birrell’s 48. The Uzbek was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Rakhimova blasted 5 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Kamilla Rakhimova lost the serve once and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Rakhimova put 54% of her first serves in, winning 78% (25/32) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (12/27) on the 2nd serve. Rakhimova broke Birrell 5 times after converting 45% of her break points (5/11).
Rakhimova has an overall 18-22 win-loss record in 2026, 13-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2025. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWWWWWW Tennis Scores in Cincinnati
- Peyton StearnsStearns – Harriet DartDart (6-1 7-66) – See score progression
- Nikola BartunkovaBartunkova – Alina CharaevaCharaeva (4-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Daria SnigurSnigur – Yuliia StarodubtsevaStarodubtseva (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch – Maya JointJoint (0-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Sofia KeninKenin – Eva LysLys (1-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Mananchaya SawangkaewSawangkaew (1-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Emiliana ArangoArango – Venus WilliamsWilliams (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro – Anna BondarBondar (6-3 7-65) – See score progression
- Sara BejlekBejlek – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
- Xiyu WangWang – Maria TimofeevaTimofeeva (6-0 3-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Sloane StephensStephens – Sinja KrausKraus (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (7-65 5-7 7-5) – See score progression
- Talia GibsonGibson – Lilli TaggerTagger (4-6 6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Oleksandra OliynykovaOliynykova – Elvina KalievaKalieva (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Xinyu WangWang – Hanne VandewinkelVandewinkel (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Lucrezia StefaniniStefanini – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (5-3 ret.) – See score progression
- Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Alycia ParksParks (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Tereza ValentovaValentova – Mary StoianaStoiana (6-2 7-64) – See score progression
- Cristina BucsaBucsa – Panna UdvardyUdvardy (6-2 1-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Caty McNallyMcNally – Mccartney KesslerKessler (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Darja VidmanovaVidmanova (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Antonia RuzicRuzic (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Katie VolynetsVolynets (7-5 0-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Zeynep SonmezSonmez – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (2-6 7-64 6-3) – See score progression
- Simona WaltertWaltert – Petra MarcinkoMarcinko (5-7 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (3-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Magda LinetteLinette (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
- Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Diane ParryParry – Caroline DolehideDolehide (6-4 7-67) – See score progression
- Lois BoissonBoisson – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Tatjana MariaMaria – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Filip KolasinskiKolasinski – Pawel JuszczakJuszczak (6-2 0-6 6-3) – See score progression
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