Maria Sakkari and Iga Swiatek will fight against each other in the semifinal of the Qatar TotalEnergies Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 7:30 pm on Centre 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.
As per the initial odds, Maria Sakkari is the pick to win this match.
Maria Sakkari -> 1.65
Iga Swiatek -> 2.35
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Prediction and head to head Maria Sakkari vs. Iga Swiatek
This will be the 4th time that Maria Sakkari and Iga Swiatek square off. The head to head is 3-0 for Sakkari (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Sakkari won 6-2 6-4 in the R in Guadalajara back in 2021.
Highlights Maria Sakkari vs Iga Swiatek – Guadalajara 11-November-2021
Maria Sakkari
| 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. 6 (career-high), Maria reached the semifinal after beating Ann Li 6-3 6-3, Jessica Pegula 6-4 7-5 and Cori Gauff 6-3 6-3.
In the quarter, Maria had a good straight sets win against Gauff (6-3 6-3). During the match, Sakkari scored 75 points vs Gauff’s 55. The Greek was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Regarding the service games, Sakkari scored 3 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Maria Sakkari was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 72% (26/36) of her 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Sakkari broke Gauff 4 times after converting 33% of her break points (4/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sakkari hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to conquer 57% of the points she played.
Sakkari has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 62% of her matches (341-210). 7-2 on hard in 2022. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Sakkari has a composed160-104 record in the last 9 years on hard.
The Greek’s best result of the season was getting to the final in St. Petersburg.
Maria has an overall 11-3 win-loss record in 2022, 7-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
Iga Swiatek
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 59-8 | 29-5 | 26-2 | 2-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 68-11 | 42-8 | 19-2 | 0-0 | 7-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 67-9 | 42-6 | 18-1 | 5-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-15 | 18-10 | 12-2 | 2-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-5 | 6-4 | 7-1 | 3-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 8, Swiatek reached the semifinal after defeating Viktorija Golubic 6-2 3-6 6-2, Daria Kasatkina 6-3 6-0 and Aryna Sabalenka 6-2 6-3.
In the quarter, Swiatek had a good straight sets win against Sabalenka (6-2 6-3). During the match Swiatek scored 59 points vs Sabalenka’s 43. Iga was pretty aggressive to blast 19 winners.
About the serving games, Swiatek couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Iga Swiatek lost the serve 3 times and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Swiatek put 67% of her first serves in, winning 68% (19/28) of the points behind her 1st serve and 36% (5/14) on the 2nd serve. Swiatek broke Sabalenka 7 times after converting 88% of her break points (7/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Swiatek has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 58% of the points she played.
Swiatek’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Adelaide and at the Australian Open .
The Pole has an overall 12-3 win-loss record in 2022, 12-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2020. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sakkari | Swiatek |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 6 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 58 | 57 |
| Pts | 219-167 | 199-144 |
| Total Points | 386 | 343 |
| Winners | 81 | 79 |
| %Winners | 37% | 40% |
Both Sakkari and Swiatek played 3 matches. At the moment, Iga Swiatek dropped 1 set while Maria Sakkari hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Sakkari has played 1 set(s) less than Swiatek (6 vs 7). However, it’s interesting to notice that Sakkari played 1 game more than Swiatek. Maria scored 81 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Swiatek scored 79 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sakkari | Swiatek |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 0 |
| 1st in | 115/180 | 118/172 |
| %1st in | 64% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 81/115 | 79/118 |
| %1st pts | 70% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 35/65 | 26/54 |
| %2nd pts | 54% | 48% |
Sakkari scored 9 aces (3 per match). Swiatek didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Sakkari won 70% points behind her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Swiatek won 67% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 48% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sakkari | Swiatek |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 13 | 18 |
| Converted | 13/32 | 18/23 |
| % Converted | 41% | 78% |
| Conceded | 17 | 19 |
| Saved | 12 | 11 |
| % Saved | 71% | 58% |
| Times Broken | 5 | 8 |
Sakkari broke her opponents 13 times with a 41% conversion rate. Maria conceded her serve 5 times and she saved 71% of the break points that she conceded. Iga broke her opponents 18 times with a 78% conversion rate. Swiatek conceded her serve 8 times and she saved 58% of the break points that she conceded.
| Sakkari | |||||
| R2 Li |
R3 Pegula |
1/4 Gauff |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | 6-4 7-5 | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 22 | 18 | 58 | |
| pts | 62-48 | 82-64 | 75-55 | 219-167 | |
| Total points | 110 | 146 | 130 | 386 | |
| Winners | 23 | 32 | 26 | 81 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 39% | 35% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 37/57 | 42/66 | 36/57 | 115/180 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 64% | 63% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 23/37 | 32/42 | 26/36 | 81/115 | |
| % 1st pts | 62% | 76% | 72% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 11/24 | 13/21 | 35/65 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 46% | 62% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 4 | 4 | 13 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 4/12 | 4/12 | 13/32 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 33% | 33% | 41% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | 3 | 17 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5/7 | 2/3 | 12 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | 67% | 70% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
| Swiatek | |||||
| R2 Golubic |
R3 Kasatkina |
1/4 Sabalenka |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 3-6 6-2 | 6-3 6-0 | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 15 | 17 | 57 | |
| pts | 84-69 | 56-32 | 59-43 | 199-144 | |
| Total points | 153 | 88 | 102 | 343 | |
| Winners | 34 | 26 | 19 | 79 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 46% | 32% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 51/79 | 39/51 | 28/42 | 118/172 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 76% | 67% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 34/51 | 26/39 | 19/28 | 79/118 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | 68% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/28 | 8/12 | 5/14 | 26/54 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 67% | 36% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 6 | 5 | 7 | 18 | |
| Converted | 6/10 | 5/5 | 7/8 | 18/23 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 100% | 88% | 78% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 4 | 4 | 19 | |
| Saved | 7/11 | 3/4 | 1/4 | 11 | |
| Saved % | 64% | 75% | 25% | 55% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | |
Head 2 Head
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