Maria Sakkari and Astra Sharma will play each other in the 3rd round of the Credit One Charleston Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 7:00 pm on Credit One Stadium. 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 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Maria Sakkari is the pick to win this match.
Maria Sakkari -> 1.136
Astra Sharma -> 5.85
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Prediction and head to head Maria Sakkari vs. Astra Sharma
This will be the 2nd time that Maria Sakkari and Astra Sharma face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Sakkari (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they played, Sakkari won 6-1 6-4 in the 2nd round in Melbourne back in 2019.
Maria Sakkari
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-9 | 12-6 | 7-3 | 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. 7, the Greek reached the 3rd round after beating Viktoriya Tomova 6-3 6-3.
In the 2nd round, The Greek had a good straight sets win against Tomova (6-3 6-3). During the match, Sakkari scored 69 points vs Tomova’s 48. Maria was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Sakkari bagged 4 aces and she was pretty steady in conceding no double faults. Overall, Maria Sakkari was extremely effective on serve to win 76% (25/33) of her 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Maria broke Tomova 4 times after converting 50% of her break points (4/8).
Sakkari has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 61% of her matches (334-218). 1-0 on clay in 2024. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Sakkari has an aggregate 112-68 match record in the last years on clay.
Maria’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Indian Wells.
The Greek has an aggregate 13-6 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Charleston
Astra Sharma
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5-8 | 1-2 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-20 | 16-8 | 25-11 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 19-26 | 11-18 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-21 | 11-9 | 11-7 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-12 | 5-8 | 3-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 135, Sharma got to the 3rd round after defeating Jessie Aney 6-0 6-2, Arina Rodionova 6-4 6-1 and Lesya Tsurenko 6-4 6-0.
In the 2nd round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Tsurenko (6-4 6-0). During the match Sharma scored 65 points vs Tsurenko’s 45. The Australian was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Sharma blasted 3 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Astra Sharma lost the serve once. Furthermore, Sharma put 60% of her first serves in, winning 73% (24/33) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (11/22) on the 2nd serve. Astra broke Tsurenko 5 times after converting 45% of her break points (5/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Astra started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to conquer 62% of the points she played.
The Australian has a composed 4-4 win-loss record in 2024, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sakkari | Sharma |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 47 |
| Pts | 69-48 | 178-109 |
| Total Points | 117 | 287 |
| Winners | 25 | 71 |
| %Winners | 36% | 40% |
Sakkari played 1 match while Sharma competed in 3 matches. Sharma started her run from the qualifications while Sakkari had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Sakkari has played 4 set(s) less than Sharma (2 vs 6). Therefore, Sakkari played 29 games less than Sharma. Maria scored 25 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian managed to score 71 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sakkari | Sharma |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 2.3 |
| 1st in | 33/51 | 94/151 |
| %1st in | 65% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 25/33 | 71/94 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 34/57 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 60% |
Sakkari blasted 4 aces . Sharma fired 7 aces (2.3 per match). Sakkari won 76% points on her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Sharma won 76% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 60% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sakkari | Sharma |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 14 |
| Converted | 4/8 | 14/23 |
| % Converted | 50% | 61% |
| Conceded | 4 | 5 |
| Saved | 3 | 3 |
| % Saved | 75% | 60% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Maria broke her opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Greek lost her serve once and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded. Sharma broke her opponents 14 times with a 61% conversion rate. Sharma conceded her serve twice and she saved 60% of the break points that she conceded.
| Sakkari | |||
| R2 Tomova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 69-48 | 69-48 | |
| Total points | 117 | 117 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 33/51 | 33/51 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 25/33 | 25/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 11/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Sharma | ||||||
| Q1 Aney |
Q3 Talaba |
R1 Rodionova |
R2 Tsurenko |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-2 | 6-2 6-3 | 6-4 6-1 | 6-4 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 64 | |
| pts | 53-20 | – | 60-44 | 65-45 | 178-109 | |
| Total points | 73 | 0 | 104 | 110 | 287 | |
| Winners | 20 | 27 | 24 | 71 | ||
| %Winners | 38% | 0% | 45% | 37% | 40% | |
| SERVE | ||||||
| Aces | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | ||
| 1st in | 23/34 | / | 38/62 | 33/55 | 94/151 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 0% | 61% | 60% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 20/23 | / | 27/38 | 24/33 | 71/94 | |
| % 1st pts | 87% | 0% | 71% | 73% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/11 | / | 14/24 | 11/22 | 34/57 | |
| % 2nd pts | 82% | 0% | 58% | 50% | 60% | |
| Breaks | ||||||
| Won | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 | ||
| Converted | 5/8 | / | 4/4 | 5/11 | 14/23 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 0% | 100% | 45% | 61% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/ | 3/4 | 0/1 | 3 | |
| Saved % | – | – | 75% | 0% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
Head 2 Head
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LLWLLWWLWL Tennis Scores in Charleston
- Astra SharmaSharma – Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-3 0-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Shelby RogersRogers (7-65 6-4) – See score progression
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Katie VolynetsVolynets (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (3-6 6-4 7-63) – See score progression
- Magda LinetteLinette – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Madison KeysKeys (3-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Yunseong ChungChung – Jeff WolfWolf (6-3 6-79 7-5) – See score progression
- Jay ClarkeClarke – Andrew HarrisHarris (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Kaichi UchidaUchida (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Ronnie SchneiderSchneider – Saketh-Sai MyneniMyneni (5-4 ret.) – See score progression
- Collin AltamiranoAltamirano – Joao MenezesMenezes (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Borna GojoGojo – Tom JombyJomby (7-5 4-6 7-66) – See score progression
- Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano – Alexander WardWard (6-3 2-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Joris De LooreDe Loore – Marc PolmansPolmans (1-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-3 0-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Katie VolynetsVolynets (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Shelby RogersRogers (7-6(5) 6-4) – See score progression
- Astra SharmaSharma – Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Caroline DolehideDolehide (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Daria GavrilovaGavrilova (7-2) – H2H and prediction
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Elise MertensMertens (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Sloane StephensStephens (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Ons JabeurJabeur (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Magda LinetteLinette (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Taylor TownsendTownsend (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Jaqueline CristianCristian (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Astra SharmaSharma – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-1) – H2H and prediction
