Elina Svitolina and Maria Sakkari will square off in the 3rd round of the Olympics for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on Centre Court. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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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 -> 1.61
Elina Svitolina -> 2.44
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Prediction and head to head Elina Svitolina vs. Maria Sakkari
This will be the 4th time that Elina Svitolina and Maria Sakkari square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Sakkari (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Sakkari won 6-3 6-3 in the 2nd round in Ostrava back in 2020.
Highlights Maria Sakkari vs Elina Svitolina – Ostrava 21-October-2020
Elina Svitolina
Ranked no. 6, the Ukrainian reached the 3rd round after defeating Laura Siegemund 6-3 5-7 6-4 and Ajla Tomljanovic 4-6 6-3 6-4.
In the 2nd round against Tomljanovic, Svitolina recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 6-4). During the match, Svitolina scored 98 points vs Tomljanovic’s 92. Elina was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about the service games, Svitolina bagged 2 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Elina Svitolina lost the serve 6 times and she saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Svitolina put 50% of her first serves in, winning 53% (28/53) of the points behind her 1st serve and 63% (29/46) on the 2nd serve. Elina broke Tomljanovic 7 times after converting 37% of her break points (7/19).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Ukrainian started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has surrendered 2 set in this event to win 51% of the points she played.
Svitolina has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 66% of her matches (372-190). 15-6 on hard in 2021. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this competition, Svitolina has a compiled 222-102 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Elina’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Miami and Stuttgart.
Elina has an overall 25-13 win-loss record in 2021, 15-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Olympics
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2016. See her history.
Maria Sakkari
Ranked no. 19, Maria got to the 3rd round after beating Anett Kontaveit 7-5 6-2 and Nina Stojanovic 6-1 6-2.
In the 2nd round, The Greek had a good straight sets win against Stojanovic (6-1 6-2). During the match Sakkari scored 61 points vs Stojanovic’s 35. Maria was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Sakkari managed to score 5 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Maria Sakkari was exceptionally effective on serve to win 87% (20/23) of her 1st serve and 71% (12/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Greek broke Stojanovic 4 times after converting 44% of her break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sakkari started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 59% of the points she played.
The Greek’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in Abu Dhabi, Melbourne, Miami and at the French Open .
The Greek has an overall 24-11 win-loss record in 2021, 14-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Svitolina | Sakkari |
---|---|---|
Match played | 2 | 2 |
Tot Set | 6 | 4 |
Tot Games | 60 | 35 |
Pts | 205-200 | 133-93 |
Total Points | 405 | 226 |
Winners | 63 | 42 |
%Winners | 31% | 32% |
Both Svitolina and Sakkari played 2 matches. At the moment, Elina Svitolina lost 2 sets while Maria Sakkari hasn’t conceded a set so far. Svitolina has played 2 sets more than Sakkari (6 vs 4). Therefore, Svitolina played 25 games more than Sakkari. The Ukrainian scored 63 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, The Greek blasted 42 winners (32%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Svitolina | Sakkari |
---|---|---|
Aces | 4 | 12 |
Avg per match | 2 | 6 |
1st in | 113/223 | 53/106 |
%1st in | 51% | 50% |
1st pts | 63/113 | 42/53 |
%1st pts | 56% | 79% |
2nd pts | 57/100 | 33/50 |
%2nd pts | 57% | 66% |
Svitolina made 4 aces (2 per match). Sakkari made 12 aces (6 per match). Svitolina won 56% points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Sakkari won 79% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 66% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Svitolina | Sakkari |
---|---|---|
Won | 14 | 8 |
Converted | 14/33 | 8/17 |
% Converted | 42% | 47% |
Conceded | 35 | 4 |
Saved | 23 | 3 |
% Saved | 66% | 75% |
Times Broken | 12 | 1 |
The Ukrainian broke her opponents 14 times with a 42% conversion rate. Svitolina lost her serve 12 times and she saved 66% of the break points that she conceded. The Greek broke her opponents 8 times with a 47% conversion rate. Sakkari conceded her serve once and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded.
Svitolina | ||||
R1 Siegemund |
R2 Tomljanovic |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 5-7 6-4 | 4-6 6-3 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
Tot Games | 31 | 29 | 60 | |
pts | 107-108 | 98-92 | 205-200 | |
Total points | 215 | 190 | 405 | |
Winners | 35 | 28 | 63 | |
%Winners | 33% | 29% | 31% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Double Faults | 4 | 6 | 10 | |
1st in | 60/118 | 53/105 | 113/223 | |
% 1st in | 51% | 50% | 51% | |
1st pts | 35/60 | 28/53 | 63/113 | |
% 1st pts | 58% | 53% | 56% | |
2nd pts | 28/54 | 29/46 | 57/100 | |
% 2nd pts | 52% | 63% | 57% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 7 | 7 | 14 | |
Converted | 7/14 | 7/19 | 14/33 | |
Converted % | 50% | 37% | 42% | |
Conceded | 21 | 14 | 35 | |
Saved | 15/21 | 8/14 | 23 | |
Saved % | 71% | 57% | 64% | |
Times Broken | 6 | 6 | 12 |
Sakkari | ||||
R1 Kontaveit |
R2 Stojanovic |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 7-5 6-2 | 6-1 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Tot Games | 20 | 15 | 35 | |
pts | 72-58 | 61-35 | 133-93 | |
Total points | 130 | 96 | 226 | |
Winners | 22 | 20 | 42 | |
%Winners | 31% | 33% | 32% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 7 | 5 | 12 | |
Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
1st in | 30/65 | 23/41 | 53/106 | |
% 1st in | 46% | 56% | 50% | |
1st pts | 22/30 | 20/23 | 42/53 | |
% 1st pts | 73% | 87% | 79% | |
2nd pts | 21/33 | 12/17 | 33/50 | |
% 2nd pts | 64% | 71% | 66% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
Converted | 4/8 | 4/9 | 8/17 | |
Converted % | 50% | 44% | 47% | |
Conceded | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
Saved | 3/4 | 0/0 | 3 | |
Saved % | 75% | – | 38% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Donna VekicVekic – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (6-4 3-6 7-63) – See score progression
- Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Petra KvitovaKvitova (5-7 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Belinda BencicBencic – Misaki DoiDoi (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Qiang WangWang (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Fiona FerroFerro (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Nina StojanovicStojanovic (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Carla Suarez NavarroSuarez Navarro (6-3 6-70 6-1) – See score progression
- Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Elena VesninaVesnina (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Mihaela BuzarnescuBuzarnescu (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Anna-Lena FriedsamFriedsam (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Ante PavicPavic (7-64 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Soon-Woo KwonKwon (6-3 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Alexander BublikBublik – Daniel MasurMasur (3-6 7-63 6-2) – See score progression
- Denis IstominIstomin – Cem IlkelIlkel (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Aleksandr NedovesovNedovesov – Alexey VatutinVatutin (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Sanjar FayzievFayziev (6-2 7-68) – See score progression
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Fiona FerroFerro (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Anna-Lena FriedsamFriedsam (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Belinda BencicBencic – Misaki DoiDoi (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Donna VekicVekic – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (6-4 3-6 7-6(3)) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Petra KvitovaKvitova (5-7 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Qiang WangWang (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Carla Suarez NavarroSuarez Navarro (6-3 6-7(0) 6-1) – See score progression
- Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Elena VesninaVesnina (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Nina StojanovicStojanovic (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (6-3 7-6(4)) – See score progression
- Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Mihaela BuzarnescuBuzarnescu (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Donna VekicVekic – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (5-2) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-0) – H2H and prediction