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.
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
| 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.
Maria Sakkari
| 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.
Tennis Scores in Rome
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Mayar SherifSherif (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro – Ann LiLi (6-3 5-7 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lucia BronzettiBronzetti – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Peyton StearnsStearns – Nuria BrancaccioBrancaccio (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Suzan LamensLamens – Renata ZarazuaZarazua (6-1 1-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sonay KartalKartal – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (4-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Alycia ParksParks (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rebecca SramkovaSramkova – Mccartney KesslerKessler (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lulu SunSun – Georgia PedonePedone (3-6 6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tadeas ParoulekParoulek – Zdenek DerkasDerkas (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dan AddedAdded – Michal KonecnyKonecny (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Julian LenzLenz – Krystof ZapskyZapsky (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Evan FurnessFurness – Sekou BangouraBangoura (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dominik RecekRecek – Tobias SimonSimon (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ondrej StylerStyler – Tomas JirousekJirousek (6-3 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Petr NouzaNouza – Marek GengelGengel (1-6 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Vaclav SafranekSafranek – Antonin BolardtBolardt (6-1 3-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Patrik RiklRikl – Alex SolankiSolanki (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jacob GrillsGrills – Jiri BarnatBarnat (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Colin SinclairSinclair – Jiri LeheckaLehecka (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ondrej KrstevKrstev – Daniel Dutra Da SilvaDutra Da Silva (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lucas GerchGerch – Jan SilhavySilhavy (6-1 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maxime ChazalChazal – Tomas MachacMachac (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Katie BoulterBoulter (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Moyuka UchijimaUchijima – Eva LysLys (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Olga DanilovicDanilovic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Belinda BencicBencic (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Lucrezia StefaniniStefanini – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Katie VolynetsVolynets – Arantxa RusRus (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emiliana ArangoArango – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Caroline DolehideDolehide – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (4-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sara ErraniErrani – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Hailey BaptisteBaptiste – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Lulu SunSun (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Ons JabeurJabeur (4-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Rebecca SramkovaSramkova (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Lucia BronzettiBronzetti – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Suzan LamensLamens (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Peyton StearnsStearns – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (4-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro (2-0) – H2H and prediction