Magda Linette and Maria Sakkari will play each other in the 2nd round of the Mutua Madrid Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 11:00 am on COURT 8. 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 3 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Maria Sakkari is the pick to win this match.
Maria Sakkari -> 1.9
Magda Linette -> 1.9

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Prediction and head to head Magda Linette vs. Maria Sakkari

This will be the 2nd time that Magda Linette and Maria Sakkari play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Linette (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.

The last time that they locked horns, Linette won 3-6 6-2 6-4 in the 1st round in Hobart back in 2019.

Magda Linette

Magda Linette

12 - 9win/loss

Hard
11-9
I Hard
0-0
Clay
1-0
Rank
32
High
19
LWLWWWWLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 12-10 11-9 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 31-27 11-16 16-7 1-1 3-3 0-0
2023 27-29 19-15 4-7 0-4 4-3 0-0
2022 40-29 23-16 10-7 3-2 4-4 0-0
2021 18-18 8-9 5-6 3-1 2-2 0-0

Ranked no. 33,she will start her run in Madrid after she played her last match in Billie Jean King Cup, Qualifiers, Group E where she defeated 6-4 6-3 to Golubic in the Rubber 2 on the 10th of April.

Magda has a composed 12-9 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Talking about her overall career, Magda has an overall 448-368 record. She has a positive 113-104 record on clay.

Previously in Madrid

Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2023. See her history.

Madrid
Linette's Record

Maria Sakkari

Maria Sakkari

8 - 13win/loss

Hard
5-10
I Hard
1-1
Clay
2-2
Rank
81
High
3
LWWWLLWLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 10-14 5-10 4-3 1-1 0-0 0-0
2024 25-17 12-8 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

Ranked no. 82, the Greek reached the 2nd round after beating Xinyu Wang 6-4 7-6(7).

In the 1st round, Maria had a good straight sets win against Wang (6-4 7-67). During the match Sakkari scored 87 points vs Wang’s 83. Sakkari was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.

About the serving games, Sakkari scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 5 double faults. Maria Sakkari lost the serve twice and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Sakkari put 55% of her first serves in, winning 71% (32/45) of the points behind her 1st serve and 46% (17/37) on the 2nd serve. The Greek broke Wang 3 times after converting 30% of her break points (3/10).

Maria has an overall 8-13 win-loss record in 2025, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Madrid

Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2023. See her history.

Madrid
Sakkari's Record

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