Petra Kvitova gets the better of Sakkari in the 4th round with Barty next. H2H

Petra Kvitova aces Maria Sakkari 6-7⁴ 6-3 6-2 in the 4^th round in Melbourne on Sunday. Kvitova will square off with Ashleigh Barty in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Sakkari had a boost of confidence at the beginning of the set after breaking Kvitova in the 1^st game (1-0). Anyhow, that was not enough for Sakkari to win the set since the Czech succeeded in breaking back in the 10^th (5-5) and in the 12^th (6-6) game. The Greek maintained her cool before winning the set at the tiebreak at 4.

The Greek failed to serve out the set when leading 6-5 to be broken at 15.

2^nd set.

Kvitova started the set strong after breaking Sakkari in the 1^st game (1-0). Yet, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for the Czech to win the set because the Greek found the way to break back in the 2^nd (1-1) and in the 6^th (3-3) game. The Czech maintained her focus to break Sakkari in the 5^th (3-2), in the 7^th (4-3) and in the 9^th (6-3) game.

3^rd set.

Kvitova didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Sakkari in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Kvitova extended her lead after breaking Sakkari in the 8^th (6-2) game before conquering the set.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Kvitova scored 101 points vs. Maria’s 87 points.

Petra won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points since she converted only 44% (8/18). On the other side, the Greek had some problems converting her break points (only 40% – 4/10). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this encounter, the head to head between Kvitova and Sakkari is 2-2.

Highlights Petra Kvitova vs. Maria Sakkari Australian Open – Melbourne

Kvitova’s Interview

Next Match H2H: Petra Kvitova vs. Ashleigh Barty – stats

Kvitova will face Barty in the quarter.

This will be the 8^th time that Petra Kvitova and Ashleigh Barty fight against each other. The head to head is 4-3 for Kvitova (see full H2H stats),but they are 2-2 on hard.

The last time that they played, Barty won 6-4 6-2 in the Round Robin in Shenzhen back in 2019.

Tennis Scores at the

• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Maria SakkariSakkari (6-7⁴ 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Cori GauffGauff (6-7⁵ 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Qiang WangWang (7-6⁴ 6-1) – See score progression
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Alison RiskeRiske (6-3 1-6 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (1-0) – See H2H details
• Elise MertensMertens – Simona HalepHalep (1-2) – See H2H details
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Kiki BertensBertens (2-1) – See H2H details
• Angelique KerberKerber – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (7-7) – See H2H details
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Petra KvitovaKvitova (3-4) – See H2H details
• Sofia KeninKenin – Ons JabeurJabeur (2-0) – See H2H details