Caroline Garcia and Maria Sakkari will fight against each other in the quarter of the Qatar TotalEnergies Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 8:00 pm on Center Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Caroline Garcia who should win in 3 sets.
Caroline Garcia -> 1.84
Maria Sakkari -> 1.97
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Prediction and head to head Caroline Garcia vs. Maria Sakkari
This will be the 4th time that Caroline Garcia and Maria Sakkari square off. The head to head is 3-0 for Garcia (see full H2H stats), 3-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Garcia won 6-3 6-2 in the semifinal in Fort Worth back in 2022.
Highlights Caroline Garcia vs Maria Sakkari – Fort Worth 06-November-2022
Caroline Garcia
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4-9 | 4-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 17-17 | 10-10 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-27 | 23-17 | 4-4 | 7-3 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-21 | 21-13 | 11-4 | 4-1 | 10-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-26 | 15-14 | 8-6 | 3-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 5, the French player got to the quarter after beating Karolina Muchova 6-73 7-5 6-4.
In the 2nd round against Muchova, Caroline recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-73 7-5 6-4).During the match, Garcia scored less points (1) than Muchova. In fact, the world no. 5 won 113 points vs Muchova’s. That means that Garcia was more focused during the important points. Caroline was exceptionally aggressive to blast 53 winners.
Talking about the service games, Garcia blasted 10 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Caroline Garcia was quite effective on serve to win 75% (53/71) of her 1st serve and 51% (19/37) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. The French player broke Muchova 3 times after converting 19% of her break points (3/16).
Garcia has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 60% of her matches (312-211). 7-2 on hard in 2023. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this event, Garcia has an aggregate 157-121 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Caroline’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in Lyon.
Caroline has a composed 11-3 win-loss record in 2023, 7-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
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, Sakkari reached the quarter after defeating Qinwen Zheng 6-2 3-6 6-3 and Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-3 6-2.
In the 2nd round, The Greek had a good straight sets win against Alexandrova (6-3 6-2). During the match Sakkari scored 69 points vs Alexandrova’s 54. The Greek was pretty aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Sakkari bagged 5 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Maria Sakkari lost the serve once and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Sakkari put 52% of her first serves in, winning 67% (20/30) of the points behind her 1st serve and 61% (17/28) on the 2nd serve. Maria broke Alexandrova 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sakkari has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points she played.
Maria’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Australia and Linz.
Sakkari has a compiled 10-3 win-loss record in 2023, 7-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2022. See her history
.H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Garcia | Sakkari |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 35 | 43 |
| Pts | 113-114 | 157-126 |
| Total Points | 227 | 283 |
| Winners | 53 | 55 |
| %Winners | 47% | 35% |
Garcia played 1 match while Sakkari competed in 2 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Caroline Garcia lost 1 set, while Maria Sakkari surrendered 1 set. Garcia has played 2 set(s) less than Sakkari (3 vs 5). Therefore, Garcia played 8 games less than Sakkari. The French player scored 53 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, The Greek recorded 55 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Garcia | Sakkari |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 12 |
| Avg per match | 10 | 6 |
| 1st in | 71/108 | 77/131 |
| %1st in | 66% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 53/71 | 55/77 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 19/37 | 32/54 |
| %2nd pts | 51% | 59% |
Garcia blasted 10 aces . Sakkari blasted 12 aces (6 per match). Garcia won 75% points behind her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 51% of the points. On the other side, Sakkari won 71% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Garcia | Sakkari |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 8 |
| Converted | 3/16 | 8/14 |
| % Converted | 19% | 57% |
| Conceded | 2 | 8 |
| Saved | 1 | 5 |
| % Saved | 50% | 63% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 |
Garcia broke her opponent 3 times with a 19% conversion rate. The French player conceded her serve once and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. Maria broke her opponents 8 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Greek conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 63% of the break points that she conceded.
| Garcia | |||
| R2 Muchova | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-73 7-5 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 35 | 35 | |
| pts | 113-114 | 113-114 | |
| Total points | 227 | 227 | |
| Winners | 53 | 53 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 71/108 | 71/108 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 53/71 | 53/71 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/37 | 19/37 | |
| % 2nd pts | 51% | 51% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/16 | 3/16 | |
| Converted % | 19% | 19% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Sakkari | ||||
| R1 Zheng | R2 Alexandrova | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 3-6 6-3 | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 17 | 43 | |
| pts | 88-72 | 69-54 | 157-126 | |
| Total points | 160 | 123 | 283 | |
| Winners | 35 | 20 | 55 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 29% | 35% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 7 | 5 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 47/73 | 30/58 | 77/131 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 52% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 35/47 | 20/30 | 55/77 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 67% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/26 | 17/28 | 32/54 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 61% | 59% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | 8/14 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 2/3 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 67% | 127% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Tennis Scores in Doha
- Louis WesselsWessels – Benjamin DhoeDhoe (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jeroen VannesteVanneste – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (6-0 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Belinda BencicBencic (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Cori GauffGauff – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Caroline GarciaGarcia (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-0) – H2H and prediction