Maria Sakkari and Anett Kontaveit will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Olympics for the 10th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 1:00 pm on Court 3. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.56
Anett Kontaveit -> 2.49
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Prediction and head to head Maria Sakkari vs. Anett Kontaveit
This will be the 10th time that Maria Sakkari and Anett Kontaveit fight against each other. The head to head is 5-4 for Sakkari (see full H2H stats),but they are 3-3 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Sakkari won 6-3 6-1 in the 2nd round in Madrid back in May 2021.
Maria Sakkari
Ranked no. 19, Sakkari will start her run in Olympics after she played her last match at the London where she lost 7-5 6-4 to Rogers in the 2nd round on the 1st of July.
Sakkari has an overall 22-11 win-loss record in 2021, 12-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Greek’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Abu Dhabi, Melbourne, Miami and at the French Open .
Talking about her overall career, Maria has an overall 336-222 record. She has a positive 154-108 record on hard.
Previously in Olympics
Maria has never competed in this tournament before.
Anett Kontaveit
Ranked no. 28, Kontaveit will start her run in Tokyo after she played her last match at the London where she lost 2-6 6-4 6-2 to Vondrousova in the 1st round on the 30th of June.
Kontaveit has an aggregate 19-10 win-loss record in 2021, 10-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Anett’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in Eastbourne.
In terms of her career, The Estonian has an overall 342-176 record. She has a positive 134-82 record on hard.
Head 2 Head
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