Maria Sakkari and Storm Hunter will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the China Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 1:30 pm on Court 5. 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 -> 1.26
Storm Hunter -> 3.8
Here where top tennis events are broadcasted or streamed online (ATP, WTA).
At the challenger level, there will be free live streaming on Challenger TV.
Prediction and head to head Maria Sakkari vs. Storm Hunter
This will be the 2nd time that Maria Sakkari and Storm Hunter fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Sakkari (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Sakkari won 6-2 6-4 in the 2nd round in Guadalajara back in 2023.
Highlights Maria Sakkari vs Storm Hunter – Guadalajara 19-September-2023
Maria Sakkari
22 - 19win/loss
33
3
LWWLWLWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 22-19 | 15-10 | 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. 33, Sakkari will start her run in Beijing after she played her last match in Singapore where she lost 6-1 4-6 6-2 to Gibson in the quarter on the 25th of September.
Maria has an overall 22-19 win-loss record in 2026, 15-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Greek’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Athens.
Talking about her overall career, Sakkari has an overall 502-344 record. She has a positive 253-181 record on hard.
Previously in Beijing
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2023. See her history.
Storm Hunter
20 - 14win/loss
182
114
WWWLLWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 20-14 | 16-7 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 6-9 | 6-6 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 14-5 | 14-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-15 | 12-10 | 9-4 | 1-0 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-19 | 17-12 | 2-3 | 3-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 182, the Australian reached the 2nd round after beating Ruien Zhang 3-6 6-3 6-2, Ksenia Zaytseva 6-0 6-1 and Yu Jun Lin 6-2 6-1.
In the 1st round, Sanders had a good straight sets win against Jun Lin (6-2 6-1). During the match Sanders scored 60 points vs Jun Lin’s 40. Storm was very aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Sanders recorded 2 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Storm Hunter conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Sanders put 58% of her first serves in, winning 69% (20/29) of the points behind her 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the 2nd serve. Sanders broke Jun Lin 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
Sanders has a compiled 20-14 win-loss record in 2026, 16-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Beijing
Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2025. See her history.
Head 2 Head
WWWWWWWWWW
WWWWWWWWWW Tennis Scores in Beijing
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Katie BoulterBoulter (7-63 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Linda FruhvirtovaFruhvirtova (6-2 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sara BejlekBejlek – Maddison InglisInglis (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daria SnigurSnigur – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (3-6 7-65 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Peyton StearnsStearns (6-4 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Renata ZarazuaZarazua (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Polina KudermetovaKudermetova – Clara TausonTauson (6-4 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nikola BartunkovaBartunkova – Magdalena FrechFrech (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sinja KrausKraus – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (4-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Yue YuanYuan (3-6 6-0 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Maja ChwalinskaChwalinska (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Maria TimofeevaTimofeeva (6-3 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Taylah PrestonPreston – Diane ParryParry (7-64 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Janice TjenTjen (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Alina CharaevaCharaeva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – Anastasia ZakharovaZakharova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Storm SandersSanders (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (0-5) – H2H and prediction
- Cori GauffGauff – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Katie VolynetsVolynets – Elise MertensMertens (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Donna VekicVekic – Lin ZhuZhu (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Xinyu GaoGao – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Daria SnigurSnigur – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sinja KrausKraus – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-0) – H2H and prediction
