Maria Sakkari and Arantxa Rus will clash against each other in the 2nd round of Wimbledon for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 2:00 pm on Court 12. 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.
Maria Sakkari -> 1.21
Arantxa Rus -> 4.45
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Prediction and head to head Maria Sakkari vs. Arantxa Rus
This will be the 6th time that Maria Sakkari and Arantxa Rus play each other. The head to head is 5-0 for Sakkari (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on grass.
The last time that they played each other, Sakkari won 6-4 6-4 in the 2nd round in Madrid back in 2023.
Highlights Maria Sakkari vs Arantxa Rus – Madrid 27-April-2023
Maria Sakkari
22 - 13win/loss
32
3
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-16 | 12-7 | 11-6 | 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, the Greek got to the 2nd round after beating Mccartney Kessler 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, Sakkari had a good straight sets win against Kessler (6-3 6-1). During the match, Sakkari scored 59 points vs Kessler’s 37. Sakkari was pretty aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Regarding the service games, Sakkari managed to score 5 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Maria Sakkari lost the serve twice and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Sakkari put 48% of her first serves in, winning 78% (18/23) of the points behind her 1st serve and 48% (12/25) on the 2nd serve. Maria broke Kessler 6 times after converting 75% of her break points (6/8).
Sakkari has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 60% of her matches (343-225). 1-2 on grass in 2024. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this competition, Sakkari has an overall 28-21 win-loss record in the last years on grass.
Maria’s best result of the year was getting to the final in Indian Wells.
Sakkari has a compiled 22-13 win-loss record in 2024, 1-2 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Wimbledon
Arantxa Rus
15 - 21win/loss
81
41
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-32 | 14-14 | 18-12 | 2-1 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 57-22 | 10-10 | 43-8 | 3-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-33 | 9-10 | 29-17 | 7-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-23 | 5-9 | 33-11 | 1-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 23-17 | 13-8 | 4-6 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 56, Arantxa got to the 2nd round after beating Yue Yuan 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Dutch had a good straight sets win against Yuan (6-2 6-3). During the match Rus scored 55 points vs Yuan’s 38. Rus was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Rus fired 4 aces and she was extremely solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Arantxa Rus was pretty effective on serve to win 79% (23/29) of her 1st serve and 69% (9/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Rus broke Yuan 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
Rus has an aggregate 15-21 win-loss record in 2024, 2-4 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Wimbledon
Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2012. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sakkari | Rus |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 17 |
| Pts | 59-37 | 55-38 |
| Total Points | 96 | 93 |
| Winners | 18 | 23 |
| %Winners | 31% | 42% |
Both Sakkari and Rus played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Sakkari and Rus have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Sakkari played 1 game less than Rus. Maria scored 18 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, Arantxa fired 23 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sakkari | Rus |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 4 |
| 1st in | 23/48 | 29/42 |
| %1st in | 48% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 18/23 | 23/29 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 12/25 | 9/13 |
| %2nd pts | 48% | 69% |
Sakkari recorded 5 aces . Rus struck 4 aces . Sakkari won 78% points on her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Rus won 79% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 69% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sakkari | Rus |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 4 |
| Converted | 6/8 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 75% | 57% |
| Conceded | 5 | 0 |
| Saved | 3 | 0 |
| % Saved | 60% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
Maria broke her opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Sakkari lost her serve twice and she saved 60% of the break points that she conceded. Arantxa broke her opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Rus was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Sakkari | |||
| R1 Kessler | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 59-37 | 59-37 | |
| Total points | 96 | 96 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 23/48 | 23/48 | |
| % 1st in | 48% | 48% | |
| 1st pts | 18/23 | 18/23 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/25 | 12/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 6/8 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Rus | |||
| R1 Yuan | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 55-38 | 55-38 | |
| Total points | 93 | 93 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 29/42 | 29/42 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 23/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/13 | 9/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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