Maria Sakkari and Marketa Vondrousova will fight against each other in the 3^rd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 11:00 am on PIETRANGELI. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marketa Vondrousova who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Marketa Vondrousova is the pick to win this match.
Marketa Vondrousova -> 1.57
Maria Sakkari -> 2.41

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Prediction and head to head Maria Sakkari vs. Marketa Vondrousova

There is no head to head record between Maria Sakkari and Marketa Vondrousova since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Maria Sakkari

Ranked no. 8, the Greek got to the 3^rd round after defeating Barbora Strycova 6-1 6-3.

In the 2^nd round, The Greek had a good straight sets win against Strycova (6-1 6-3). During the match, Sakkari scored 59 points vs Strycova’s 43. The Greek was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Regarding the service games, Sakkari fired 4 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Maria Sakkari lost the serve twice and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Sakkari put 59% of her first serves in, winning 76% (25/33) of the points behind her 1st serve and 30% (7/23) on the 2nd serve. Sakkari broke Strycova 6 times after converting 60% of her break points (6/10).

Sakkari has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 62% of her matches (361-217). 5-2 on clay in 2023. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Sakkari has a composed 148-77 match record in the last years on clay.

Sakkari’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Australia, Linz, Doha, Indian Wells and Madrid.

Maria has an overall 20-9 win-loss record in 2023, 5-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

Marketa Vondrousova

Ranked no. 70, the Czech got to the 3^rd round after beating Kaia Kanepi 6-0 4-6 6-2 and Bianca Vanessa Andreescu 6-0 6-1.

In the 2^nd round, Marketa had a good straight sets win against Andreescu (6-0 6-1). During the match Vondrousova scored 56 points vs Andreescu’s 27. Vondrousova was exceptionally aggressive to blast 20 winners.

Talking about serving, Vondrousova scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Marketa Vondrousova was very efficient on serve to win 91% (20/22) of her 1st serve and 57% (4/7) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Marketa broke Andreescu 6 times after converting 50% of her break points (6/12).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Vondrousova has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 61% of the points she played.

Marketa’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in Linz.

Marketa has a compiled 20-7 win-loss record in 2023, 7-1 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in Rome

Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2020. See her history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Sakkari	Vondrousova
Match played	1	2
Tot Set	2	5
Tot Games	16	37
Pts	59-43	148-96
Total Points	102	244
Winners	25	52
%Winners	42%	35%

Sakkari played 1 match while Vondrousova competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Marketa Vondrousova surrendered 1 set while Maria Sakkari hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Sakkari has played 3 set(s) less than Vondrousova (2 vs 5). Therefore, Sakkari played 21 games less than Vondrousova. Maria scored 25 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Vondrousova recorded 52 winners (35%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Sakkari	Vondrousova
Aces	4	5
Avg per match	4	2.5
1st in	33/56	76/120
%1st in	59%	63%
1st pts	25/33	52/76
%1st pts	76%	68%
2nd pts	7/23	22/44
%2nd pts	30%	50%

Sakkari blasted 4 aces . Vondrousova scored 5 aces (2.5 per match). Sakkari won 76% points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 30% of the points. On the other side, Vondrousova won 68% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 50% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Sakkari	Vondrousova
Won	6	14
Converted	6/10	14/26
% Converted	60%	54%
Conceded	8	12
Saved	6	8
% Saved	75%	67%
Times Broken	2	4

The Greek broke her opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Greek conceded her serve twice and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded. The Czech broke her opponents 14 times with a 54% conversion rate. The Czech conceded her serve 4 times and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded.

Sakkari
	R2 Strycova	Total
Score	6-1 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	59-43	59-43
Total points	102	102
Winners	25	25
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	33/56	33/56
% 1st in	59%	59%
1st pts	25/33	25/33
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	7/23	7/23
% 2nd pts	30%	30%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/10	6/10
Converted %	60%	60%
Conceded	8	8
Saved	6/8	6
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	2	2

Vondrousova
	R1 Kanepi	R2 Andreescu	Total
Score	6-0 4-6 6-2	6-0 6-1
Tot Set	3	2	5
Tot Games	24	13	37
pts	92-69	56-27	148-96
Total points	161	83	244
Winners	32	20	52
%Winners	35%	36%	35%
SERVE
Aces	4	1	5
Double Faults	13	1	14
1st in	54/91	22/29	76/120
% 1st in	59%	76%	63%
1st pts	32/54	20/22	52/76
% 1st pts	59%	91%	68%
2nd pts	18/37	4/7	22/44
% 2nd pts	49%	57%	50%
Breaks
Won	8	6	14
Converted	8/14	6/12	14/26
Converted %	57%	50%	54%
Conceded	12	0	12
Saved	8/12	0/0	8
Saved %	67%	–	67%
Times Broken	4	0	4

Tennis Scores in Rome

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• Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Magda LinetteLinette (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (7-5 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Xiyu WangWang – Taylor TownsendTownsend (6-2 0-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Qinwen ZhengZheng – Anna BondarBondar (7-6² 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

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