Maria Sakkari overcomes Belinda Bencic 2-6 6-4 6-3 in the quarter in St. Petersburg on Friday. Sakkari is going to play against Elena Rybakina in the semifinal.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Bencic was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Sakkari in the 1st game (1-0). Belinda managed to strengthen her lead after breaking Sakkari in the 5th (4-1) game before winning the set (6-2).
2nd set.
Maria won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding her serve in the 3rd (1-2) game, Sakkari broke back in the 4th (2-2) and in the 10th (6-4) game before winning the set 6-4.
3rd set.
Bencic got off on the right foot in the set after breaking Sakkari in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, Maria managed to stage a great comeback to break Bencic in the 2nd (1-1) and in the 8th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).
Statistics
Sakkari won this match even if she won the same amount of points of Bencic (90 vs. 90).
Sakkari won this match even if she was far from perfect in converting her break points because she converted only 40% (4/10). On the other side, the Swiss was pretty focused in converting 57% of the break points that she procured points (4/7). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Sakkari and Bencic is 1-0 for Maria.
Highlights Maria Sakkari vs. Belinda Bencic St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy – St. Petersburg
Next Match H2H: Maria Sakkari vs. Elena Rybakina – stats
Sakkari will play Rybakina in the semifinal.
There is no head to head record between Maria Sakkari and Elena Rybakina since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Belinda BencicBencic (2-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Oceane DodinDodin (6-75 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Petra KvitovaKvitova (0-1) – See H2H details
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Kiki BertensBertens (0-0) – See H2H details
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – See H2H details
