Maria Sakkari and Jelena Ostapenko will play each other in the 2nd round of the J&T Banka Ostrava Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 2:00 pm on Center Court. 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.
Maria Sakkari -> 1.77
Jelena Ostapenko -> 2.1
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Prediction and head to head Maria Sakkari vs. Jelena Ostapenko
This will be the 3rd time that Maria Sakkari and Jelena Ostapenko fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Sakkari and Ostapenko (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Sakkari won 6-1 3-6 6-2 in the 1st round in Melbourne back in 2019.
Maria Sakkari
Ranked no. 12 (career-high), Sakkari will start her run in Ostrava after she played her last match at the New York where she lost 6-1 6-4 to Raducanu in the semifinal on the 9th of September.
Maria has a compiled 31-15 win-loss record in 2021, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.
The Greek’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Abu Dhabi, Melbourne, Miami,at the French Open and at the U.S. Open .
Talking about her overall career, Sakkari has an overall 345-226 record. She has a flat 9-9 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Ostrava
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2020. See her history.
Jelena Ostapenko
Ranked no. 29, Ostapenko reached the 2nd round after defeating Anna Blinkova 6-4 6-0.
In the 1st round, Jelena had a good straight sets win against Blinkova (6-4 6-0). During the match Ostapenko scored 55 points vs Blinkova’s 39. Ostapenko was pretty aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Talking about serving, Ostapenko scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Jelena Ostapenko lost the serve twice and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Ostapenko put 57% of her first serves in, winning 57% (17/30) of the points behind her 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the 2nd serve. The Latvian broke Blinkova 6 times after converting 60% of her break points (6/10).
Her best result of the season was winning the title in in Eastbourne where she defeated Anett Kontaveit in the final 6-3 6-3.
Ostapenko has a composed 28-16 win-loss record in 2021, 7-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Ostrava
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2020. See her history.
Tennis Scores in Ostrava
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-1 6-74 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Santiago VillarruelVillarruel – Francisco CabralCabral (6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maxime MoraMora – Sergio Martos GornesMartos Gornes (6-1 2-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Guy Den HeijerDen Heijer (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Magda LinetteLinette – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Belinda BencicBencic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Alison RiskeRiske (0-0) – H2H and prediction