Maria Sakkari and Yulia Putintseva will face off in the 1st round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:30 am on Court 1. 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 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Maria Sakkari is the pick to win this match.
Maria Sakkari -> 1.64
Yulia Putintseva -> 2.24
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Prediction and head to head Maria Sakkari vs. Yulia Putintseva
This will be the 5th time that Maria Sakkari and Yulia Putintseva fight against each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Sakkari (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Sakkari won 7-5 7-6(6) in the 1st round in Bad Homburg back in 2025.
Maria Sakkari
26 - 21win/loss
30
3
LWWWLWLWWL | 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 |
Ranked no. 30, Maria will start her run in Tokyo after she played her last match in Wuhan where she lost 6-0 3-6 7-5 to Chwalinska in the quarter on the 16th of October.
The Greek has a composed 26-21 win-loss record in 2026, 19-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Maria’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in Athens.
Talking about her overall career, Maria has an overall 506-346 record. She has a positive 257-183 record on hard.
Previously in Tokyo
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2023. See her history.
Yulia Putintseva
34 - 23win/loss
67
20
WWLWWLWWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 34-23 | 19-13 | 14-8 | 1-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 25-27 | 17-17 | 5-5 | 2-1 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 40-22 | 22-15 | 9-4 | 1-2 | 8-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-27 | 19-17 | 13-8 | 2-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-21 | 9-11 | 15-7 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 67, Yulia got to the 1st round after defeating Hayu Kinoshita 7-5 6-2 and Sayaka Ishii 4-6 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications against Ishii, Yulia recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-2 6-3). During the match Putintseva scored 93 points vs Ishii’s 85. The Kazakhstani was pretty aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about serving, Putintseva scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Yulia Putintseva lost the serve 4 times. Furthermore, Putintseva put 70% of her first serves in, winning 65% (37/57) of the points behind her 1st serve and 48% (12/25) on the 2nd serve. The Kazakhstani broke Ishii 6 times after converting 43% of her break points (6/14).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Kazakhstani started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points she played.
WTA Tokyo - Yulia Putintseva's projected path
Putintseva has an aggregate 34-23 win-loss record in 2026, 19-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tokyo
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2016. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Maria SakkariSakkari (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Himeno SakatsumeSakatsume (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Moyuka UchijimaUchijima – Elise MertensMertens (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Ann LiLi – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Diane ParryParry – Cristina BucsaBucsa (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alycia ParksParks – Maja ChwalinskaChwalinska (1-0) – H2H and prediction
