Maria Sakkari and Sloane Stephens will play each other in the 3rd round of the Mutua Madrid Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 1:00 pm on ARANTXA SANCHEZ 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 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Maria Sakkari is the pick to win this match.
Maria Sakkari -> 1.64
Sloane Stephens -> 2.26
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Prediction and head to head Maria Sakkari vs. Sloane Stephens
This will be the 2nd time that Maria Sakkari and Sloane Stephens fight against each other. 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 fought against each other, Sakkari won 6-2 4-6 6-2 in the 2nd round in Toronto back in 2022.
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. 6, Maria reached the 3rd round after beating Donna Vekic 6-3 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Maria had a good straight sets win against Vekic (6-3 6-2). During the match, Sakkari scored 66 points vs Vekic’s 42. Maria was very aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Regarding the service games, Sakkari blasted 7 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Maria Sakkari lost the serve once. Furthermore, Sakkari put 58% of her first serves in, winning 70% (21/30) of the points behind her 1st serve and 68% (15/22) on the 2nd serve. Sakkari broke Vekic 4 times after converting 44% of her break points (4/9).
Sakkari has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 61% of her matches (339-220). 6-2 on clay in 2024. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Sakkari has an overall 117-70 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Maria’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in Indian Wells.
The Greek has a composed 18-8 win-loss record in 2024, 6-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Madrid
Sloane Stephens
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-17 | 8-8 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-20 | 11-14 | 13-5 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-17 | 13-9 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-19 | 6-11 | 11-6 | 1-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-11 | 3-8 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 33, the American reached the 3rd round after beating Martina Trevisan 6-3 5-7 6-4 and Elise Mertens 3-6 6-3 6-1.
In the 2nd round against Mertens, Sloane recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 6-1). During the match Stephens scored 99 points vs Mertens’s 79. Stephens was extremely aggressive to blast 47 winners.
Talking about serving, Stephens was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Sloane Stephens lost the serve twice and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Stephens put 74% of her first serves in, winning 67% (47/70) of the points behind her 1st serve and 56% (14/25) on the 2nd serve. Sloane broke Mertens 4 times after converting 36% of her break points (4/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points she played.
Her best result of the current season was winning the title in Rouen where she defeated Magda Linette in the final 6-1 2-6 6-2.
Sloane has a composed 17-9 win-loss record in 2024, 9-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Madrid
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2019. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sakkari | Stephens |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 56 |
| Pts | 66-42 | 228-191 |
| Total Points | 108 | 419 |
| Winners | 21 | 98 |
| %Winners | 32% | 43% |
Sakkari played 1 match while Stephens competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Sloane Stephens dropped 2 sets while Maria Sakkari hasn’t lost a set so far. Sakkari has played 4 set(s) less than Stephens (2 vs 6). Therefore, Sakkari played 39 games less than Stephens. The Greek scored 21 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Stephens bagged 98 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sakkari | Stephens |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 1 |
| 1st in | 30/52 | 150/202 |
| %1st in | 58% | 74% |
| 1st pts | 21/30 | 98/150 |
| %1st pts | 70% | 65% |
| 2nd pts | 15/22 | 26/52 |
| %2nd pts | 68% | 50% |
Sakkari made 7 aces . Stephens struck 2 aces (1 per match). Sakkari won 70% points behind her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 68% of the points. On the other side, Stephens won 65% 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 | Stephens |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 10 |
| Converted | 4/9 | 10/32 |
| % Converted | 44% | 31% |
| Conceded | 1 | 18 |
| Saved | 0 | 11 |
| % Saved | 0% | 61% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 7 |
Sakkari broke her opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Sakkari lost her serve once and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded. Stephens broke her opponents 10 times with a 31% conversion rate. Stephens conceded her serve 7 times and she saved 61% of the break points that she conceded.
| Sakkari | |||
| R2 Vekic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 66-42 | 66-42 | |
| Total points | 108 | 108 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 30/52 | 30/52 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 21/30 | 21/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/22 | 15/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 68% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Stephens | ||||
| R1 Trevisan |
R2 Mertens |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 5-7 6-4 | 3-6 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 31 | 25 | 56 | |
| pts | 129-112 | 99-79 | 228-191 | |
| Total points | 241 | 178 | 419 | |
| Winners | 51 | 47 | 98 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 47% | 43% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 80/107 | 70/95 | 150/202 | |
| % 1st in | 75% | 74% | 74% | |
| 1st pts | 51/80 | 47/70 | 98/150 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 67% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/27 | 14/25 | 26/52 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 56% | 50% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 6 | 4 | 10 | |
| Converted | 6/21 | 4/11 | 10/32 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 36% | 31% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 7 | 18 | |
| Saved | 6/11 | 5/7 | 11 | |
| Saved % | 55% | 71% | 126% | |
| Times Broken | 5 | 2 | 7 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLLWLLLLL Tennis Scores in Madrid
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Daria SavilleSaville (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Xinyu WangWang (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Caroline DolehideDolehide – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (6-76 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Magda LinetteLinette (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Linda NoskovaNoskova (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Ashlyn KruegerKrueger – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Victoria Jimenez KasintsevaJimenez Kasintseva (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Mayar SherifSherif – Marta KostyukKostyuk (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Cristina BucsaBucsa (5-7 7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Emiliana ArangoArango (0-6 7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova (6-4 5-7 6-3) – See score progression
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Sloane StephensStephens – Elise MertensMertens (3-6 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Xiyu WangWang (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Sara ErraniErrani (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Naomi OsakaOsaka (6-2 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Alexandra EalaEala (6-3 6-76 6-4) – See score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Donna VekicVekic (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Tatjana MariaMaria (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Cori GauffGauff – Arantxa RusRus (6-0 6-0) – See score progression
- Maria Lourdes CarleLourdes Carle – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Madison KeysKeys – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (7-63 7-66) – See score progression
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Harri HeliovaaraHeliovaara (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Tsung-Hua YangYang (4-6 7-64 7-5) – See score progression
- Zihao XiaXia – Di WuWu (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Ze ZhangZhang – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Duckhee LeeLee – Yibing WuWu (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
- James WardWard – Arjun KadheKadhe (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Zhe LiLi (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Tatsuma ItoIto (7-67 7-5) – See score progression
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Qinwen ZhengZheng (7-5 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Caroline DolehideDolehide – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (6-7(6) 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Daria SavilleSaville (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Cristina BucsaBucsa (5-7 7-6(5) 6-3) – See score progression
- Ashlyn KruegerKrueger – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Mayar SherifSherif – Marta KostyukKostyuk (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Linda NoskovaNoskova (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Xinyu WangWang (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Victoria Jimenez KasintsevaJimenez Kasintseva (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Magda LinetteLinette (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Shelby RogersRogers (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Olga DanilovicDanilovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Katie BoulterBoulter – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Emma NavarroNavarro (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sloane StephensStephens – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Cori GauffGauff – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Madison KeysKeys – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Maria Lourdes CarleLourdes Carle (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Caroline DolehideDolehide (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (2-4) – H2H and prediction
- Mayar SherifSherif – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (5-2) – H2H and prediction
