Elina Svitolina and Maria Sakkari will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the J&T Banka Ostrava Open for the 3rd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 6:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elina Svitolina who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Elina Svitolina is the pick to win this match.
Elina Svitolina -> 1.82
Maria Sakkari -> 2.03
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Prediction and head to head Elina Svitolina vs. Maria Sakkari
This will be the 3rd time that Elina Svitolina and Maria Sakkari face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Svitolina and Sakkari (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they locked horns, Svitolina won 6-3 6-71 6-2 in the 3rd round in at the Wimbledon back in 2019.
Highlights Elina Svitolina vs Elina Svitolina – Wimbledon 05-July-2019
Elina Svitolina
Ranked no. 5, Elina will start her run in Ostrava after she played her last match at the Paris where she lost 6-2 6-4 to Podoroska in the quarter the 6th of October.
Elina has a 21-8 win-loss record in 2020, 2-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the season was conquering the title in Monterrey where she defeated Marie Bouzkova in the final 7-5 4-6 6-4 and in Strasbourg where she defeated Elena Rybakina in the final 6-4 1-6 6-2.
Talking about her overall career, Elina has an overall 411-203 record. She has positive 46-24 record on indoor hard courts.
Last year in Ostrava
The Ukrainian didn’t compete in Ostrava in 2019.
Maria Sakkari
Ranked no. 23, the Greek got to the 3rd round after defeating Kristyna Pliskova 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, Maria had a good straight sets win against Pliskova (6-3 6-3). During the match Sakkari scored 73 points vs Pliskova’s 50. The Greek was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Sakkari bagged 3 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Maria Sakkari was very efficent on serve to win 77% (23/30) of her 1st serve and 58% (18/31) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Sakkari broke Pliskova 4 times after converting 44% of her break points (4/9).
Sakkari’s best result of the season was reaching the semi-finals in St. Petersburg.
Sakkari has a 18-10 win-loss record in 2020, 4-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Ostrava
Maria didn’t compete in Ostrava in 2019.
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Ostrava
- Matteo DonatiDonati – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (3-6 7-615 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Laslo DjereDjere – Filippo VolandriVolandri (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrey RublevRublev – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Andrea CollariniCollarini (6-3 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Facundo BagnisBagnis – Mohamed SafwatSafwat (6-76 6-4 7-60) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Petra MarticMartic (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Elise MertensMertens (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Maria SakkariSakkari (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cori GauffGauff – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Jennifer BradyBrady (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (1-1) – H2H and prediction