Johanna Konta and Maria Sakkari will fight against each other in the quarter of the Western & Southern Open for the 5th time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 5 pm on Grandstand. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the 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 -> 1.76
Johanna Konta -> 2.02

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Prediction and head to head Johanna Konta vs. Maria Sakkari

This will be the 5th time that Johanna Konta and Maria Sakkari fight against each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Konta (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Sakkari won 2-6 6-4 6-1 in the final in Rabat back in 2019.

Johanna Konta

Ranked no. 15, Johanna got to the final after beating Kirsten Flipkens 6-2 6-0 and Vera Zvonareva 6-4 6-2.

In the 3rd round, Johanna had a good straight sets win against Zvonareva (6-4 6-2). During the match Konta scored 63 points vs Zvonareva’s 46. Johanna was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about the service games, Konta recorded 5 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Johanna Konta was extremely effective on serve to win 87% (27/31) of her 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Konta broke Zvonareva 3 times after converting 75% of her break points (3/4).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Johanna hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 62% of the points she played.

Konta has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 65% of her matches (907-480). 5-4 on hard in 2020. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Konta has a 331-194 record in the last 10 years on hard.

Johanna’s best result of the current year was getting to the semi-finals in Monterrey.

Konta has a 5-5 win-loss record in 2020, 5-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year in New York

The Brit lost in the quarter 6-4 6-4 to Elina Svitolina.

Maria Sakkari

Ranked no. 21, Maria got to the final after defeating Cori Gauff 6-1 6-3, Yulia Putintseva 6-4 7-69 and Serena Williams 5-7 7-65 6-1.

In the 3rd round against Williams, Sakkari recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 7-65 6-1). During the match Sakkari scored 113 points vs Williams’s 108. Maria was extremely aggressive to blast 44 winners.

Talking about serving, Sakkari recorded 7 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Maria Sakkari lost the serve 4 times and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Sakkari put 59% of her first serves in, winning 75% (44/59) of the points behind her 1st serve and 46% (19/41) on the 2nd serve. Sakkari broke Williams 5 times after converting 26% of her break points (5/19).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Greek has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points she played.

Sakkari has a winning win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 57% of her matches (668-494). 9-5 on hard in 2020. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Sakkari has a 308-208 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.

Maria’s best result of the year was getting to the semi-finals in St. Petersburg.

Sakkari has a 12-7 win-loss record in 2020, 9-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year in New York

Maria had to surrender in the 3rd round 7-5 6-3 to Ashleigh Barty.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Konta Sakkari
Match played 2 3
Tot Set 4 7
Tot Games 32 71
Pts 120-74 244-211
Total Points 194 455
Winners 45 95
%Winners 38% 39%

Konta played 2 matches while Sakkari competed in 3 matches. At the moment, Maria Sakkari conceded 1 set while Johanna Konta hasn’t dropped a set so far. Konta has played 3 set(s) less than Sakkari (4 vs 7). Therefore, Konta played 39 games less than Sakkari. Johanna scored 45 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Maria scored 95 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve Konta Sakkari
Aces 10 19
Avg per match 5 6.3
1st in 52/85 122/218
%1st in 61% 56%
1st pts 45/52 95/122
%1st pts 87% 78%
2nd pts 21/33 52/96
%2nd pts 64% 54%

Konta scored 10 aces (5 per match). Sakkari recorded 19 aces (6.3 per match). Konta won 87% points behind her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Sakkari won 78% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 54% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Konta Sakkari
Won 8 11
Converted 8/15 11/29
% Converted 53% 38%
Conceded 0 8
Saved 0 3
% Saved NAN% 38%
Times Broken 0 5

Johanna broke her opponents 8 times with a 53% conversion rate. Konta was rock solid on her serve as she has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Greek broke her opponents 11 times with a 38% conversion rate. Maria conceded her serve 5 times and she saved 38% of the break points that she conceded.

Konta
R2
Flipkens		 R3
Zvonareva		 Total
Score 6-2 6-0 6-4 6-2
Tot Set 2 2 4
Tot Games 14 18 32
pts 57-28 63-46 120-74
Total points 85 109 194
Winners 18 27 45
%Winners 32% 43% 38%
SERVE
Aces 5 5 10
Double Faults 1 3 4
1st in 21/34 31/51 52/85
% 1st in 62% 61% 61%
1st pts 18/21 27/31 45/52
% 1st pts 86% 87% 87%
2nd pts 10/13 11/20 21/33
% 2nd pts 77% 55% 64%
Breaks
Won 5 3 8
Converted 5/11 3/4 8/15
Converted % 45% 75% 53%
Conceded 0 0 0
Saved 0/0 0/0 0
Saved % – – 0%
Times Broken 0 0 0
Sakkari
R1
Gauff		 R2
Putintseva		 R3
Williams		 Total
Score 6-1 6-3 6-4 7-69 5-7 7-65 6-1
Tot Set 2 2 3 7
Tot Games 16 23 32 71
pts 56-41 75-62 113-108 244-211
Total points 97 137 221 455
Winners 21 30 44 95
%Winners 38% 40% 39% 39%
SERVE
Aces 4 8 7 19
Double Faults 4 2 4 10
1st in 25/52 38/66 59/100 122/218
% 1st in 48% 58% 59% 56%
1st pts 21/25 30/38 44/59 95/122
% 1st pts 84% 79% 75% 78%
2nd pts 14/27 19/28 19/41 52/96
% 2nd pts 52% 68% 46% 54%
Breaks
Won 4 2 5 11
Converted 4/6 2/4 5/19 11/29
Converted % 67% 50% 26% 38%
Conceded 1 1 6 8
Saved 1/1 0/1 2/6 3
Saved % 100% 0% 33% 67%
Times Broken 0 1 4 5

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