Maria Sakkari and Polona Hercog will face off in the 1st round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 5:30 pm on Grand Stand Arena. 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 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Maria Sakkari is the pick to win this match.
Maria Sakkari -> 1.285
Polona Hercog -> 3.8
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Prediction and head to head Maria Sakkari vs. Polona Hercog
This will be the 2nd time that Maria Sakkari and Polona Hercog square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Hercog (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Hercog won 6-4 6-2 in the semifinal in Istanbul back in 2018.
Maria Sakkari
Ranked no. 19 (career high), Sakkari will start her run in Rome after she played her last match in Madrid where she lost 6-0 6-7(9) 7-5 to Muchova in the 3rd round on the 4th of May.
Maria has a 15-8 win-loss record in 2021, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Sakkari’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Abu Dhabi, Melbourne and Miami.
Talking about her overall career, Maria has an overall 329-219 record. She has a positive 144-83 record on clay.
Previously in Rome
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2019. See her history.
Polona Hercog
Ranked no. 73, the Slovenian got to the 1st round after defeating Lucia Bronzetti 6-4 6-3 and Sara Errani 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Slovenian had a good straight sets win against Errani (6-2 6-3). During the match Hercog scored 64 points vs Errani’s 43. The Slovenian was extremely aggressive to blast 15 winners.
Talking about serving, Hercog was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Polona Hercog was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 75% (15/20) of her 1st serve and 71% (17/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Hercog broke Errani 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Slovenian started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 59% of the points she played.
Polona has a 7-7 win-loss record in 2021, 6-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Rome
Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2011 and 2020. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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- Alize CornetCornet – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (6-2 7-65) – See score progression
- Christina MchaleMchale – Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig (6-3 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Nao HibinoHibino (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Tamara ZidansekZidansek – Sloane StephensStephens (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Bernarda PeraPera – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (6-75 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Polona HercogHercog – Sara ErraniErrani (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Martina TrevisanTrevisan – Yaroslava ShvedovaShvedova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Elise MertensMertens (0-4) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Polona HercogHercog (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Saisai ZhengZheng – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Madison KeysKeys (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alison RiskeRiske – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-1) – H2H and prediction
- Bernarda PeraPera – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Qiang WangWang – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christina MchaleMchale – Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Magda LinetteLinette – Petra KvitovaKvitova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Johanna KontaKonta – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Angelique KerberKerber – Alize CornetCornet (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Petra MarticMartic – Shelby RogersRogers (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Belinda BencicBencic (3-3) – H2H and prediction
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Shuai ZhangZhang (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-0) – H2H and prediction
