Maria Sakkari and Mia Pohankova will square off in the 3^rd round of the Wuhan Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on Court 1. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.43
Mia Pohankova -> 2.8

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Prediction and head to head Maria Sakkari vs. Mia Pohankova

There is no head to head record between Maria Sakkari and Mia Pohankova since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Maria Sakkari

Maria Sakkari

25 - 20win/loss

Hard

18-11

I Hard

2-1

Clay

3-5

Grass

2-3

Rank
31

High
3

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2026	26-21	19-12	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

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Ranked no. 35, the Greek got to the 3^rd round after beating Donna Vekic 6-4 6-2 and Marta Kostyuk 4-6 6-2 6-2.

In the 2^nd round against Kostyuk, Sakkari recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-2 6-2). During the match, Sakkari scored 95 points vs Kostyuk’s 76. Sakkari was pretty aggressive to blast 37 winners.

Regarding the service games, Sakkari was unable to score even 1 ace throughout the encounter and she committed only 5 double faults. Maria Sakkari lost the serve twice and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Sakkari put 61% of her first serves in, winning 69% (37/54) of the points behind her 1st serve and 62% (21/34) on the 2nd serve. The Greek broke Kostyuk 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Maria has lost 1 set in this event to conquer 56% of the points she played.

WTA Wuhan - Maria Sakkari's projected path

Projected draw

1st

D.Vekic (36)6-4 6-2

QF

SF

F

Sakkari has favorable record in the last 10 years having won 58% of her matches (294-217). 18-11 on hard in 2026. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Sakkari has an overall 169-125 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Sakkari’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Athens.

Maria has an aggregate 25-20 win-loss record in 2026, 18-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Wuhan

Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2017. See her history.

Wuhan

Sakkari's Record

Mia Pohankova

Mia Pohankova

29 - 15win/loss

Hard

9-3

I Hard

11-4

Clay

7-5

Grass

2-3

Rank
145

High
145

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2026	29-16	9-4	7-5	11-4	2-3	0-0
2025	9-5	2-1	0-0	7-3	0-1	0-0
2024	11-2	0-0	0-0	11-2	0-0	0-0
2023	3-1	0-0	0-0	3-1	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 202, Mia got to the 3^rd round after defeating Anna Bondar 6-1 6-3 and Xiyu Wang 7-6(2) 6-7(7) 6-1.

In the 2^nd round, Mia defeated Wang (7-6² 6-7⁷ 6-1). During the match Pohankova scored 112 points vs Wang’s 98. Mia was very aggressive to blast 53 winners.

About the serving games, Pohankova managed to score 7 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Mia Pohankova was pretty efficient on serve to win 80% (53/66) of her 1st serve and 52% (24/46) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Mia broke Wang 3 times after converting 50% of her break points (3/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Mia has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points she played.

WTA Wuhan - Mia Pohankova's projected path

Projected draw

1st

A.Bondar (75)6-1 6-3

QF

SF

F

Her best result of the season was winning the title the W75 Leszno where she defeated Julia Avdeeva in the final 6-3 6-2.

The Slovakian has a compiled 29-15 win-loss record in 2026, 9-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Wuhan

Pohankova's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Sakkari and Pohankova played 2 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Maria Sakkari conceded 1 set, while Mia Pohankova conceded 1 set. Talking about their workload, Sakkari and Pohankova have played the same amount of sets 5. However, Sakkari played 5 games less than Pohankova. Maria scored 61 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, The Slovakian made 74 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Sakkari scored 4 aces (2 per match). Pohankova managed to score 11 aces (5.5 per match). Sakkari won 70% points on her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Pohankova won 78% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 58% of the points.

How they played the important points

Maria broke her opponents 11 times with a 42% conversion rate. Maria conceded her serve 5 times and she saved 29% of the break points that she conceded. Mia broke her opponents 7 times with a 70% conversion rate. Mia conceded her serve once and she saved 88% of the break points that she conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Maria
Sakkari

1:0

Mia
Pohankova

Rank

31

High

3

1Hard0

Rank

145

High

145

Win Loss

Sakkari

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Pohankova

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2026 2025 2024

26 - 21

29 - 16

19-12

Hard

9-4

2-1

I Hard

11-4

3-5

Clay

7-5

2-3

Grass

2-3

Tennis Scores in Wuhan

• Maja ChwalinskaChwalinska – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (1-6 6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Nikola BartunkovaBartunkova (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Magdalena FrechFrech (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-2 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
• Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Sonay KartalKartal – Belinda BencicBencic (6-0 7-5) – See score progression
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Caty McNallyMcNally (3-6 7-6¹ 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Iva JovicJovic – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Janice TjenTjen – Daria SnigurSnigur (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Marta KostyukKostyuk (4-6 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Mia PohankovaPohankova – Xiyu WangWang (7-6² 6-7⁷ 6-1) – See score progression
• Janice TjenTjen – Daria SnigurSnigur (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Magdalena FrechFrech (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Iva JovicJovic – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Maja ChwalinskaChwalinska – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (1-6 6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-2 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
• Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Nikola BartunkovaBartunkova (7-6(5) 6-3) – See score progression
• Sonay KartalKartal – Belinda BencicBencic (6-0 7-5) – See score progression
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Caty McNallyMcNally (3-6 7-6(1) 7-6(4)) – See score progression
• Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-2 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Ann LiLi (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Katie VolynetsVolynets – Hanyu GuoGuo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Jessica PegulaPegula (2-4) – H2H and prediction
• Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – (0-1) – H2H and prediction

Sakkari

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Pohankova