Maria Sakkari and Ekaterina Alexandrova will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Qatar TotalEnergies Open for the 7th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 5:30 pm on Grandstand 2. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and 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 -> 1.56
Ekaterina Alexandrova -> 2.43
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Prediction and head to head Maria Sakkari vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
This will be the 7th time that Maria Sakkari and Ekaterina Alexandrova play each other. The head to head is 5-1 for Sakkari (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Sakkari won 6-3 6-2 in the 2nd round in Rome back in 2022.
Maria Sakkari
| 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. 7, the Greek got to the 2nd round after defeating Qinwen Zheng 6-2 3-6 6-3.
In the 1st round, Sakkari defeated Zheng (6-2 3-6 6-3). During the match, Sakkari scored 88 points vs Zheng’s 72. The Greek was exceptionally aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Regarding the service games, Sakkari recorded 7 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Maria Sakkari was quite effective on serve to win 74% (35/47) of her 1st serve and 58% (15/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve twice. Sakkari broke Zheng 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
Sakkari has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 62% of her matches (350-211). 6-2 on hard in 2023. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Sakkari has an overall 162-104 record in the last years on hard.
Maria’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in Australia and Linz.
The Greek has an aggregate 9-3 win-loss record in 2023, 6-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
Ekaterina Alexandrova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47-25 | 22-16 | 13-5 | 4-1 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 26-25 | 17-13 | 1-7 | 3-2 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-21 | 17-13 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-18 | 12-10 | 13-5 | 4-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-23 | 10-9 | 6-5 | 7-7 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 18, Alexandrova reached the 2nd round after beating Karolina Pliskova 6-1 6-2.
In the 1st round, Alexandrova had a good straight sets win against Pliskova (6-1 6-2). During the match Alexandrova scored 59 points vs Pliskova’s 34. Alexandrova was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Alexandrova managed to score 10 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Ekaterina Alexandrova was very effective on serve to win 74% (26/35) of her 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Alexandrova broke Pliskova 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
Ekaterina has a composed 4-3 win-loss record in 2023, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2020. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sakkari | Alexandrova |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 15 |
| Pts | 88-72 | 59-34 |
| Total Points | 160 | 93 |
| Winners | 35 | 26 |
| %Winners | 40% | 44% |
Both Sakkari and Alexandrova played 1 match. At the moment, Maria Sakkari lost 1 set while Ekaterina Alexandrova hasn’t conceded a set so far. Sakkari has played 1 set more than Alexandrova (3 vs 2). Therefore, Sakkari played 11 games more than Alexandrova. Sakkari scored 35 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, The Russian managed to score 26 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sakkari | Alexandrova |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 10 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 10 |
| 1st in | 47/73 | 35/53 |
| %1st in | 64% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 35/47 | 26/35 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 15/26 | 10/18 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 56% |
Sakkari scored 7 aces . Alexandrova fired 10 aces . Sakkari won 74% points behind her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Alexandrova won 74% of the points on 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 | Alexandrova |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 5/7 |
| % Converted | 57% | 71% |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 |
| Saved | 3 | 4 |
| % Saved | 60% | 80% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
The Greek broke her opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Sakkari surrendered her serve twice and she saved 60% of the break points that she conceded. Alexandrova broke her opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Ekaterina conceded her serve once and she saved 80% of the break points that she conceded.
| Sakkari | |||
| R1 Zheng |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 3-6 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 88-72 | 88-72 | |
| Total points | 160 | 160 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 47/73 | 47/73 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 35/47 | 35/47 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/26 | 15/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Alexandrova | |||
| R1 Pliskova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 59-34 | 59-34 | |
| Total points | 93 | 93 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 35/53 | 35/53 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 26/35 | 26/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 10/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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