Maria Sakkari and Varvara Gracheva will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 11:00 am on GRAND STAND ARENA. In the following lines 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 -> 1.146
Varvara Gracheva -> 5.6

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Prediction and head to head Maria Sakkari vs. Varvara Gracheva

This will be the 2^nd time that Maria Sakkari and Varvara Gracheva clash 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 played each other, Sakkari won 6-4 6-2 in the 2^nd round in Linz back in 2023.

Highlights Maria Sakkari vs Varvara Gracheva – Linz 08-February-2023

Maria Sakkari

Ranked no. 8, Sakkari will start her run in Rome after she played her last match in Madrid where she lost 6-4 6-4 to Haddad Maia in the 4^th round on the 29^th of April.

The Greek has a composed 19-9 win-loss record in 2024, 7-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

The Greek’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Indian Wells.

Talking about her overall career, Sakkari has an overall 449-288 record. She has a positive 170-97 record on clay.

Previously in Rome

Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2019. See her history.

Varvara Gracheva

Ranked no. 88, Varvara reached the 2^nd round after beating Eleonora Alvisi 6-1 6-1, Jaqueline Cristian 3-6 6-2 6-3 and Federica Di Sarra 6-1 6-3.

In the 1^st round, The French player had a good straight sets win against Di Sarra (6-1 6-3). During the match Gracheva scored 57 points vs Di Sarra’s 36. The French player was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Gracheva couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Varvara Gracheva lost the serve once and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Gracheva put 67% of her first serves in, winning 76% (25/33) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (7/16) on the 2nd serve. Gracheva broke Di Sarra 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).

The French player has a compiled 13-13 win-loss record in 2024, 9-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

Previously, her best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2023. See her history.

Tennis Scores in Rome

• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Bernarda PeraPera (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Marta KostyukKostyuk (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Aliaksandra Sasnovich
  Sasnovich – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jaqueline CristianCristian – Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan (5-7 6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Sloane StephensStephens (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Linda NoskovaNoskova – Lucrezia StefaniniStefanini (6-3 7-6¹) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Tatjana MariaMaria (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Cori GauffGauff – Magdalena FrechFrech (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Xinyu WangWang (4-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Qinwen ZhengZheng – Shelby RogersRogers (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Angelique KerberKerber – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lloyd Harris
  Harris – Joris De LooreDe Loore (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Liam BroadyBroady – Jay ClarkeClarke (7-6³ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Martin RedlickiRedlicki – Marcos GironGiron (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Thomas FabbianoFabbiano – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Kaichi UchidaUchida (7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-6⁶ 7-6¹) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Christopher EubanksEubanks – Michael MmohMmoh (7-6⁴ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Jc AragoneAragone (4-6 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Madison KeysMadison – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoMaria (6-0 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Sorana CirsteaSorana – Brenda FruhvirtovaBrenda (7-5 6-0) – See score progression
• Marketa VondrousovaMarketa – Ana BogdanAna (6-2 3-6 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Emma NavarroNavarro – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Magda LinetteLinette (3-2) – H2H and prediction
• Mayar SherifSherif – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Caroline GarciaGarcia (1-4) – H2H and prediction
• Elise MertensMertens – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (4-0) – H2H and prediction
• Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Elena RybakinaRybakina (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Sofia KeninKenin (2-5) – H2H and prediction
• Rebecca SramkovaSramkova – Katie BoulterBoulter (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (3-2) – H2H and prediction
• Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Sara ErraniErrani (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Clara TausonTauson – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Katie VolynetsVolynets – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Angelique KerberKerber – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Madison KeysKeys (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (3-1) – H2H and prediction
• Cori GauffGauff – Jaqueline CristianCristian (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-1) – H2H and prediction