Maria Sakkari and Katerina Siniakova will face off in the 2nd round of the BNP Paribas Open for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 1:30 pm on STADIUM 2. 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.

As per the initial odds, Maria Sakkari is the pick to win this match.
Maria Sakkari -> 1.25
Katerina Siniakova -> 4.15

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Prediction and head to head Maria Sakkari vs. Katerina Siniakova

This will be the 5th time that Maria Sakkari and Katerina Siniakova clash against each other. The head to head is 2-2 for Sakkari and Siniakova (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Sakkari won 6-4 6-2 in the 2nd round in at the U.S. Open back in 2021.

Highlights Maria Sakkari vs Katerina Siniakova – U.S. Open 02-September-2021

Maria Sakkari

Maria Sakkari

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Rank
52
High
3
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 25-29 14-19 7-5 1-1 3-4 0-0
2024 25-17 12-8 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

Ranked no. 6 (career-high), the Greek will start her run in Indian Wells after she played her last match in Doha where she lost 6-4 6-3 to Swiatek in the semifinal on the 25th of February.

Maria has an overall 11-4 win-loss record in 2022, 7-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Sakkari’s best result of the year was reaching the final in St. Petersburg.

Talking about her overall career, Sakkari has an overall 363-235 record. She has a positive 172-118 record on hard.

Previously in Indian Wells

Previously, her best result was reaching the 4th round in 2018. See her history.

Indian Wells
Sakkari's Record

Katerina Siniakova

Katerina Siniakova

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Rank
49
High
27
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 37-22 24-11 3-5 3-2 7-4 0-0
2024 35-25 18-16 9-6 1-1 7-2 0-0
2023 24-20 18-16 0-1 0-1 6-2 0-0
2022 28-21 21-13 6-5 1-0 0-3 0-0
2021 23-19 9-10 7-4 1-3 6-2 0-0

Ranked no. 55, Siniakova got to the 2nd round after beating Irina-Camelia Begu 6-2 4-6 6-4.

In the 1st round, Siniakova defeated Begu (6-2 4-6 6-4). During the match Siniakova scored 113 points vs Begu’s 105. Katerina was exceptionally aggressive to blast 40 winners.

About the serving games, Siniakova wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she was not very consistent on her 2nd serve to score 14 double faults. Katerina Siniakova lost the serve 6 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Siniakova put 60% of her first serves in, winning 60% (40/67) of the points behind her 1st serve and 38% (17/45) on the 2nd serve. Katerina broke Begu 8 times after converting 35% of her break points (8/23).

Katerina has a compiled 4-5 win-loss record in 2022, 4-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Indian Wells

Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2017. See her history.

Indian Wells
Siniakova's Record

Tennis Scores in Indian Wells

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