Maria Sakkari and Alize Cornet will square off in the 2nd round of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy for the 3rd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:00 pm on SIBUR ARENA. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alize Cornet who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alize Cornet is the pick to win this match.
Alize Cornet -> 1.80
Maria Sakkari -> 1.90
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Prediction and head to head Maria Sakkari vs. Alize Cornet
This will be the 3rd time that Maria Sakkari and Alize Cornet play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Sakkari (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they fought against each other, Sakkari won 7-62 7-5 in the quarter in Wuhan back in 2017.
Maria Sakkari
Ranked no. 21 (career high), Sakkari reached the quarter after beating Vitalia Diatchenko 3-6 6-4 7-63.
In the 1st round against Diatchenko, Maria recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-4 7-63). During the match Sakkari scored 108 points vs Diatchenko’s 107. Sakkari was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Sakkari blasted 8 aces and she committed only 7 double faults. Maria Sakkari lost the serve 8 times and she saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Sakkari put 58% of her first serves in, winning 54% (31/57) of the points behind her 1st serve and 41% (17/41) on the 2nd serve. Maria broke Diatchenko 8 times after converting 50% of her break points (8/16).
Sakkari has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 60% of her matches (25-38). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2020. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Sakkari has a 124-107 record in the last 7 years on indoor hard courts.
Sakkari has a 5-3 win-loss record in 2020, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Last year in St. Petersburg
The Greek lost in the 1st round 6-2 7-5 to Julia Goerges.
Alize Cornet
Ranked no. 61, Alize reached the quarter after beating Valentyna Ivakhnenko 6-2 6-1, Vera Zvonareva 6-3 6-4 and Jelena Ostapenko 6-1 6-2.
In the 1st round, Alize had a good straight sets win against Ostapenko (6-1 6-2). During the match Cornet scored 56 points vs Ostapenko’s 31. Cornet was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Cornet blasted 2 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Alize Cornet conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Cornet put 70% of her first serves in, winning 86% (24/28) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (6/12) on the 2nd serve. The French Player broke Ostapenko 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
Cornet has a winning record in the last 10 years having won 59% of her matches (195-134). 3-0 on indoor hard courts in 2020. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Cornet has a 254-218 win-loss record in the last 10 years on indoor hard courts.
Cornet has a 7-3 win-loss record in 2020, 3-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Last year in St. Petersburg
Cornet surrendered in the 1st round 7-5 7-64 to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
Live score
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H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sakkari | Cornet |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 32 | 49 |
| Pts | 108-107 | 186-123 |
| Total Points | 215 | 309 |
| Winners | 31 | 76 |
| %Winners | 29% | 41% |
Sakkari played 1 match while Cornet competed in 3 matches. Cornet started her run from the qualifications while Sakkari had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Maria Sakkari lost 1 set while Alize Cornet hasn’t dropped a set so far. Sakkari has played 3 sets less than Cornet (3 vs 6). Therefore, Sakkari played 17 games less than Cornet. The Greek scored 31 winners (29% on total points). On the other side, Cornet blasted 76 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sakkari | Cornet |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 2.7 |
| 1st in | 57/98 | 95/150 |
| %1st in | 58% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 31/57 | 76/95 |
| %1st pts | 54% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 17/41 | 25/55 |
| %2nd pts | 41% | 45% |
Sakkari blasted 8 aces . Cornet blasted 8 aces (2.7 per match). Sakkari won 54% points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 41% of the points. On the other side, Cornet won 80% points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 45% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sakkari | Cornet |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 8 | 14 |
| Converted | 8/16 | 14/23 |
| % Converted | 50% | 61% |
| Conceded | 17 | 10 |
| Saved | 9 | 7 |
| % Saved | 53% | 70% |
| Times Broken | 8 | 3 |
Maria broke her opponent 8 times with 50% conversion rate. The Greek conceded her serve 8 times and she saved 53% of the break points that she conceded. Cornet broke her opponents 14 times with 61% conversion rate. The French Player conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 70% of the break points that she conceded.
| Sakkari | |||
| R1 Diatchenko |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-6 6-4 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 32 | 32 | |
| pts | 108-107 | 108-107 | |
| Total points | 215 | 215 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 29% | 29% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 57/98 | 57/98 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 31/57 | 31/57 | |
| % 1st pts | 54% | 54% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/41 | 17/41 | |
| % 2nd pts | 41% | 41% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 8 | 8 | |
| Converted | 8/16 | 8/16 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 17 | 17 | |
| Saved | 9/17 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 53% | 53% | |
| Times Broken | 8 | 700 | |
| Cornet | |||||
| Q1 Ivakhnenko |
Q3 Zvonareva |
R1 Ostapenko |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | 6-3 6-4 | 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 19 | 15 | 49 | |
| pts | 53-33 | 77-59 | 56-31 | 186-123 | |
| Total points | 86 | 136 | 87 | 309 | |
| Winners | 23 | 29 | 24 | 76 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 38% | 43% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 | |
| 1st in | 30/48 | 37/62 | 28/40 | 95/150 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 60% | 70% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 23/30 | 29/37 | 24/28 | 76/95 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 78% | 86% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/18 | 12/25 | 6/12 | 25/55 | |
| % 2nd pts | 39% | 48% | 50% | 45% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 4/9 | 5/7 | 14/23 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 44% | 71% | 61% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 6 | 2 | 10 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 4/6 | 2/2 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 67% | 100% | 217% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
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Upcoming matches
- Alize CornetCornet – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-2) – See H2H details
- Donna VekicVekic – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (1-0) – See H2H details
- Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Petra KvitovaKvitova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Kiki BertensBertens (0-0) – See H2H details
- Oceane DodinDodin – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – See H2H details
