Maria Sakkari and Ons Jabeur will play each other in the quarter of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 5:00 pm on GRAND STAND ARENA. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ons Jabeur who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ons Jabeur is the pick to win this match.
Ons Jabeur -> 1.57
Maria Sakkari -> 2.54
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Prediction and head to head Maria Sakkari vs. Ons Jabeur
This will be the 3rd time that Maria Sakkari and Ons Jabeur square off. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Sakkari won 3-6 6-3 6-1 in the quarter in Ostrava back in 2020.
Highlights Maria Sakkari vs Ons Jabeur – Ostrava 23-October-2020
Maria Sakkari
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-10 | 12-6 | 9-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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. 4, Maria reached the quarter after defeating Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-3 6-2 and Cori Gauff 6-4 7-5.
In the 3rd round, Sakkari had a good straight sets win against Gauff (6-4 7-5). During the match, Sakkari scored 79 points vs Gauff’s 65. Sakkari was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, Sakkari scored 2 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Maria Sakkari lost the serve twice and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Sakkari put 56% of her first serves in, winning 67% (26/39) of the points behind her 1st serve and 61% (19/31) on the 2nd serve. Maria broke Gauff 4 times after converting 33% of her break points (4/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Maria hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 56% of the points she played.
Sakkari has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 62% of her matches (349-215). 3-2 on clay in 2022. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Sakkari has a compiled146-79 match record in the last 9 years on clay.
The Greek’s best result of the year was getting to the final in St. Petersburg and Indian Wells.
Sakkari has an overall 19-8 win-loss record in 2022, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Rome
Ons Jabeur
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-9 | 2-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-17 | 18-11 | 11-3 | 0-0 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-17 | 19-12 | 17-4 | 0-0 | 11-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 48-19 | 25-12 | 13-4 | 0-1 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 23-11 | 18-8 | 3-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 7 (career-high), Ons reached the quarter after beating Sorana Cirstea 6-0 7-61, Ajla Tomljanovic 7-5 6-2 and Yulia Putintseva 6-3 6-2.
In the 3rd round, Ons had a good straight sets win against Putintseva (6-3 6-2). During the match Jabeur scored 57 points vs Putintseva’s 41. Ons was pretty aggressive to blast 15 winners.
About the serving games, Jabeur bagged 2 aces and she was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Ons Jabeur was quite effective on serve to win 71% (15/21) of her 1st serve and 74% (20/27) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Jabeur broke Putintseva 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ons hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 59% of the points she played.
Her best result of the current season was winning the title in in Madrid where she overcame Jessica Pegula in the final 7-5 0-6 6-2.
The Tunisian has a compiled 23-7 win-loss record in 2022, 15-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Rome
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2020. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sakkari | Jabeur |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 39 | 56 |
| Pts | 139-109 | 209-147 |
| Total Points | 248 | 356 |
| Winners | 53 | 64 |
| %Winners | 38% | 31% |
Sakkari played 2 matches while Jabeur competed in 3 matches. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Sakkari has played 2 set(s) less than Jabeur (4 vs 6). Therefore, Sakkari played 17 games less than Jabeur. Maria scored 53 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The Tunisian blasted 64 winners (31%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sakkari | Jabeur |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 2 |
| 1st in | 74/128 | 89/166 |
| %1st in | 58% | 54% |
| 1st pts | 53/74 | 64/89 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 29/54 | 48/77 |
| %2nd pts | 54% | 62% |
Sakkari fired 8 aces (4 per match). Jabeur recorded 6 aces (2 per match). Sakkari won 72% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Jabeur won 72% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 62% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sakkari | Jabeur |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 8 | 14 |
| Converted | 8/18 | 14/29 |
| % Converted | 44% | 48% |
| Conceded | 8 | 9 |
| Saved | 5 | 5 |
| % Saved | 63% | 56% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 4 |
The Greek broke her opponents 8 times with a 44% conversion rate. The Greek lost her serve 3 times and she saved 63% of the break points that she conceded. The Tunisian broke her opponents 14 times with a 48% conversion rate. Ons conceded her serve 4 times and she saved 56% of the break points that she conceded.
| Sakkari | ||||
| R2 Alexandrova |
R3 Gauff |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 22 | 39 | |
| pts | 60-44 | 79-65 | 139-109 | |
| Total points | 104 | 144 | 248 | |
| Winners | 27 | 26 | 53 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 33% | 38% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 6 | 2 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 35/58 | 39/70 | 74/128 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 56% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 27/35 | 26/39 | 53/74 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 67% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/23 | 19/31 | 29/54 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 61% | 54% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/12 | 8/18 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 33% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 6 | 8 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 4/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 67% | 59% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Jabeur | |||||
| R1 Cirstea |
R2 Tomljanovic |
R3 Putintseva |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 7-61 | 7-5 6-2 | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 20 | 17 | 56 | |
| pts | 70-45 | 82-61 | 57-41 | 209-147 | |
| Total points | 115 | 143 | 98 | 356 | |
| Winners | 20 | 29 | 15 | 64 | |
| %Winners | 29% | 35% | 26% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 26/51 | 42/67 | 21/48 | 89/166 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 63% | 44% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 20/26 | 29/42 | 15/21 | 64/89 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 69% | 71% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/25 | 14/25 | 20/27 | 48/77 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | 74% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 5 | 4 | 14 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/14 | 4/7 | 14/29 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 36% | 57% | 48% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 6 | 1 | 9 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 4/6 | 1/1 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 67% | 100% | 84% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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