Maria Sakkari and Storm Hunter will face off in the 2nd round of the Guadalajara Open Akron for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 6:00 pm on Estadio Akron de Tennis. 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 -> 1.14
Storm Hunter -> 5.7
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Prediction and head to head Maria Sakkari vs. Storm Hunter
There is no head to head record between Maria Sakkari and Storm Hunter since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Maria Sakkari
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-14 | 12-6 | 9-5 | 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 |
| 2020 | 20-11 | 12-7 | 2-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 9, Maria will start her run in Guadalajara after she played her last match in San Diego where she lost 6-4 0-6 7-6(4) to Navarro in the quarter on the 14th of September.
The Greek has a compiled 29-19 win-loss record in 2023, 17-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Maria’s best result of the year was reaching the final in Washington.
Talking about her overall career, The Greek has an overall 421-273 record. She has a positive 203-138 record on hard.
Previously in Guadalajara
Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2022. See her history.
Storm Hunter
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-5 | 14-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-15 | 12-10 | 9-4 | 1-0 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-19 | 17-12 | 2-3 | 3-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-15 | 10-7 | 11-5 | 2-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-7 | 6-3 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 157, Storm got to the 2nd round after beating Iryna Shymanovich 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Storm had a good straight sets win against Shymanovich (6-3 6-4). During the match Sanders scored 65 points vs Shymanovich’s 51. Storm was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Sanders bagged 4 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Storm Hunter lost the serve once and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Sanders put 59% of her first serves in, winning 79% (31/39) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (12/27) on the 2nd serve. Storm was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Shymanovich 3 times.
Her best result of the current season was winning the title the W60 Burnie where she defeated Olivia Gadecki in the final 6-4 6-3.
The Australian has a composed 24-14 win-loss record in 2023, 12-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Guadalajara
Storm has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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LWWWLWLWWL Tennis Scores in Guadalajara
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Eugenie BouchardBouchard (6-2 6-74 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hailey BaptisteBaptiste – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (7-65 5-7 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Martina TrevisanTrevisan – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ji Hoon SonHoon Son – Cheong-Eui KimKim (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dragos DimaDima – Jung-Woong NaNa (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ivan NedelkoNedelko – Vasile AntonescuAntonescu (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Davide GaloppiniGaloppini (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nikita MashtakovMashtakov – Alessandro PetronePetrone (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pavel NejedlyNejedly – Pascal BrunnerBrunner (6-1 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Enrique Lopez-PerezLopez-Perez – Tak Khunn WangKhunn Wang (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Alycia ParksParks (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sachia VickeryVickery – Caroline DolehideDolehide (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Madison KeysKeys – Emma NavarroNavarro (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Elise MertensMertens (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Sofia KeninKenin (3-4) – H2H and prediction
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Caroline GarciaGarcia (0-5) – H2H and prediction
- Elvina KalievaKalieva – Taylor TownsendTownsend (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sloane StephensStephens – Emiliana ArangoArango (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Cristina BucsaBucsa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Storm SandersSanders – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-0) – H2H and prediction
