H2H, PREDICTION Maria Sakkari vs Irina-Camelia Begu | St. Petersburg odds, preview, pick

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Prediction and head to head Maria Sakkari vs. Irina-Camelia Begu

Maria Sakkari and Irina-Camelia Begu will face off in the semifinal of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 2:00 pm on Sibur Arena. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Maria Sakkari who should win in 2 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Maria Sakkari is the pick to win this match.
Maria Sakkari -> 1.47
Irina-Camelia Begu -> 2.85

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Prediction and head to head Maria Sakkari vs. Irina-Camelia Begu

This will be the 3rd time that Maria Sakkari and Irina-Camelia Begu play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Sakkari and Begu (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they fought against each other, Sakkari won 6-3 4-6 6-4 in the quarter in Seoul back in 2018.

Maria Sakkari

Maria Sakkari
Maria Sakkari

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
32
High
3
LLWWLWWLLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 25-16 12-7 11-6 0-0 2-3 0-0
2023 38-25 26-17 5-4 3-1 4-3 0-0
2022 40-23 21-12 8-5 4-2 7-4 0-0
2021 38-20 23-13 9-4 5-2 1-1 0-0
2020 20-11 12-7 2-2 6-2 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 7, the Greek reached the semifinal after beating Anastasia Potapova 6-4 6-4, Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-2 6-4 and Elise Mertens 7-67 6-2.

In the quarter, Maria had a good straight sets win against Mertens (7-67 6-2). During the match, Sakkari scored 92 points vs Mertens’s 76. Maria was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Regarding the service games, Sakkari bagged 6 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Maria Sakkari lost the serve 4 times and she saved 13 break points. Furthermore, Sakkari put 57% of her first serves in, winning 67% (34/51) of the points behind her 1st serve and 39% (15/38) on the 2nd serve. Sakkari broke Mertens 6 times after converting 55% of her break points (6/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Sakkari hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to conquer 55% of the points she played.

Sakkari has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 62% of her matches (337-209). 3-0 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Sakkari has a compiled17-11 win-loss record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.

Maria has a compiled 7-2 win-loss record in 2022, 3-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in St. Petersburg

Sakkari
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Sakkari's Record

Irina-Camelia Begu

Irina-Camelia Begu
Irina-Camelia Begu

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
82
High
22
WWWWWLLWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 30-13 1-2 29-10 0-0 0-1 0-0
2023 17-14 5-7 11-5 0-1 1-1 0-0
2022 32-17 7-9 20-5 3-2 2-1 0-0
2021 21-17 16-10 3-5 0-1 2-1 0-0
2020 23-11 15-5 7-4 1-2 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 56, Irina-Camelia got to the semifinal after defeating Shuai Zhang 6-3 6-1, Petra Kvitova 6-4 6-0 and Tereza Martincova 6-4 6-2.

In the quarter, Begu had a good straight sets win against Martincova (6-4 6-2). During the match Begu scored 60 points vs Martincova’s 49. The Romanian was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.

About the serving games, Begu bagged 6 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Irina-Camelia Begu was very effective on serve to win 72% (28/39) of her 1st serve and 58% (15/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Irina-Camelia broke Martincova 3 times after converting 75% of her break points (3/4).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Irina-Camelia hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 58% of the points she played.

Begu has an aggregate 6-2 win-loss record in 2022, 3-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Begu
St. Petersburg
Begu's Record
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H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

M.Sakkari
I.Begu
5h:05
5h:05
Time on court​
3h:48
3h:48
!
2h:07
2h:07
Last match​
1h:25
1h:25
3
3
Match played
3
3
59
59
Games Played​
50
50
6
6
Set played​​
6
6
231
231
Total points​
184
184
77
77
Avg point​
61.3
61.3
94
94
Winners
70
70
31.3
31.3
Avg Winners​
23.3
23.3
41%
41%
Ratio winners
38%
38%
-- Serve --
13
13
Aces
15
15
4.3
4.3
Avg Aces
5
5
7
7
Double Faults
11
11
2.3
2.3
Avg Double Faults
3.7
3.7
94/135
94/135
1st won total​
70/94
70/94
70%
70%
1st won %
!
74%
74%
43/92
43/92
2nd won total​
43/77
43/77
47%
47%
2nd won %
56%
56%
-- Break Points --
13/25
13/25
BP won
13/23
13/23
4.3/8.3
4.3/8.3
Avg BP won
4.3/7.7
4.3/7.7
!
52%
52%
Won
!
57%
57%
31
31
Conceded
10
10
10.3
10.3
Avg Conceded
3.3
3.3
6
6
Broken
2
2
2
2
Avg Broken
!
0.7
0.7
25
25
Saved
8
8

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Sakkari Begu
Match played 3 3
Tot Set 6 6
Tot Games 59 50
Pts 231-192 184-133
Total Points 423 317
Winners 94 70
%Winners 41% 38%

Both Sakkari and Begu played 3 matches. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Sakkari and Begu have played the same amount of sets 6. However, Sakkari played 9 games more than Begu. The Greek scored 94 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Irina-Camelia fired 70 winners (38%).

Serve Performance

Serve Sakkari Begu
Aces 13 15
Avg per match 4.3 5
1st in 135/227 94/171
%1st in 59% 55%
1st pts 94/135 70/94
%1st pts 70% 74%
2nd pts 43/92 43/77
%2nd pts 47% 56%

Sakkari recorded 13 aces (4.3 per match). Begu blasted 15 aces (5 per match). Sakkari won 70% points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Begu won 74% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 56% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Sakkari Begu
Won 13 13
Converted 13/25 13/23
% Converted 52% 57%
Conceded 31 10
Saved 25 8
% Saved 81% 80%
Times Broken 6 2

Sakkari broke her opponents 13 times with a 52% conversion rate. Maria conceded her serve 6 times and she saved 81% of the break points that she conceded. Irina-Camelia broke her opponents 13 times with a 57% conversion rate. Begu conceded her serve twice and she saved 80% of the break points that she conceded.

Sakkari
R1
Potapova
R2
Alexandrova
1/4
Mertens
Total
Score 6-4 6-4 6-2 6-4 7-67 6-2
Tot Set 2 2 2 6
Tot Games 20 18 21 59
pts 79-71 60-45 92-76 231-192
Total points 150 105 168 423
Winners 37 23 34 94
%Winners 47% 38% 37% 41%
SERVE
Aces 4 3 6 13
Double Faults 5 0 2 7
1st in 55/90 29/48 51/89 135/227
% 1st in 61% 60% 57% 59%
1st pts 37/55 23/29 34/51 94/135
% 1st pts 67% 79% 67% 70%
2nd pts 14/35 14/19 15/38 43/92
% 2nd pts 40% 74% 39% 47%
Breaks
Won 4 3 6 13
Converted 4/7 3/7 6/11 13/25
Converted % 57% 43% 55% 52%
Conceded 14 0 17 31
Saved 12/14 0/0 13/17 25
Saved % 86% 76% 54%
Times Broken 2 0 4 6
Begu
R1
Zhang
R2
Kvitova
1/4
Martincova
Total
Score 6-3 6-1 6-4 6-0 6-4 6-2
Tot Set 2 2 2 6
Tot Games 16 16 18 50
pts 68-44 56-40 60-49 184-133
Total points 112 96 109 317
Winners 23 19 28 70
%Winners 34% 34% 47% 38%
SERVE
Aces 5 4 6 15
Double Faults 4 3 4 11
1st in 29/55 26/51 39/65 94/171
% 1st in 53% 51% 60% 55%
1st pts 23/29 19/26 28/39 70/94
% 1st pts 79% 73% 72% 74%
2nd pts 14/26 14/25 15/26 43/77
% 2nd pts 54% 56% 58% 56%
Breaks
Won 5 5 3 13
Converted 5/13 5/6 3/4 13/23
Converted % 38% 83% 75% 57%
Conceded 5 1 4 10
Saved 4/5 0/1 4/4 8
Saved % 80% 0% 100% 60%
Times Broken 1 1 0 2

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Sakkari
LLWWLWWLLL
Begu
WWWWWLLWLW
2024 2023 2022
25 - 16
30 - 13
12-7
Hard
1-2
11-6
Clay
29-10
2-3
Grass
0-1

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