Belinda Bencic and Maria Sakkari will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 4:00 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Belinda Bencic who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Belinda Bencic is the pick to win this match.
Belinda Bencic -> 1.444
Maria Sakkari -> 2.77

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Prediction and head to head Belinda Bencic vs. Maria Sakkari

This will be the 3rd time that Belinda Bencic and Maria Sakkari clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Bencic and Sakkari (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.

The last time that they locked horns, Bencic won 6-7(6) 6-4 6-4 in the semifinal in Berlin back in 2022.

Highlights Belinda Bencic vs Maria Sakkari – Berlin 18-June-2022

Belinda Bencic

Belinda Bencic

21 - 8win/loss

Hard
18-6
I Hard
0-0
Clay
3-2
Rank
11
High
4
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 39-17 31-12 3-3 0-0 5-2 0-0
2024 8-2 0-0 0-0 8-2 0-0 0-0
2023 31-13 24-10 4-2 0-0 3-1 0-0
2022 42-18 13-9 13-4 10-2 6-3 0-0
2021 37-20 22-9 5-5 5-3 5-3 0-0

Ranked no. 39, Belinda will start her run in Rome after she played her last match in Madrid where she lost 6-4 6-2 to Gauff in the 4th round on the 28th of April.

The Swiss has a compiled 21-8 win-loss record in 2025, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Her best result of the current season was winning the title in Abu Dhabi where she overcame Ashlyn Krueger in the final 4-6 6-1 6-1.

Talking about her overall career, Belinda has an overall 417-209 record. She has a positive 78-46 record on clay.

Previously in Rome

Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2014, 2019, 2020 and 2022. See her history.

Rome
Bencic's Record

Maria Sakkari

Maria Sakkari

12 - 14win/loss

Hard
5-10
I Hard
1-1
Clay
6-3
Rank
52
High
3
LWWLLWLLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 25-29 14-19 7-5 1-1 3-4 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. 81, Maria got to the 1st round after defeating Chloe Paquet 4-6 6-3 6-2 and Maja Chwalinska 3-6 6-3 6-1.

In the qualifications against Chwalinska, Sakkari recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 6-1). During the match Sakkari scored 92 points vs Chwalinska’s 78. The Greek was quite aggressive to blast 35 winners.

About the serving games, Sakkari scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 4 double faults. Maria Sakkari lost the serve 3 times and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Sakkari put 61% of her first serves in, winning 63% (35/56) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (18/36) on the 2nd serve. Maria broke Chwalinska 6 times after converting 46% of her break points (6/13).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Sakkari started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points she played.

Maria has a compiled 12-14 win-loss record in 2025, 6-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

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

Rome
Sakkari's Record

Tennis Scores in Rome

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