Maria Sakkari beats Anouk Koevermans 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in ‘s-Hertogenbosch on Wednesday. Sakkari will try to keep the momentum against Elise Mertens in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 29 minutes.
Sakkari added to her prize money € 1,039 after winning this match. She has already won € 3,624 after this win. If she wins the next match, Maria will add € 2,301 to her earnings to get in total € 5,925 in total.
Highlights Maria Sakkari vs. Anouk Koevermans Libema Open – ‘s-Hertogenbosch
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Maria scored 70 points vs. Anouk’s 55.
Sakkari
Maria was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that she conquered (4/8).
Koevermans
On the other side, the Dutch was not so effective in converting her break points (only 40% – 2/5). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this contest, the head to head between Sakkari and Koevermans is 1-0 for Maria.
Draw and next match H2H: Maria Sakkari vs. Elise Mertens – stats
Sakkari will come up against Mertens in the 2nd round.
This will be the 11th time that Maria Sakkari and Elise Mertens face off. The head to head is 6-4 for Sakkari (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on grass.
The last time that they fought against each other, Sakkari won 6-1 7-5 in the R in Australia back in 2023.
Live score progression and stats
Maria won the set after she broke the Dutch 4 times in the 3rd (2-1), in the 4th (3-1), in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (5-3) game. Anouk tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (4-3) game. However, the Greek kept the situation under control to conquer the set 6-3.
They played 64 points. The Greek was the one to win the set after conquering 6 points more than the Dutch (35-29). The Greek dropped 12 points on serve (17-12). In addition, on the other side, Koevermans conceded 18 points on serve (17-18).
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Maria grabbed in the 5th game (3-2) just before eventually winning the set (6-4).
The Greek was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 5th
game (2-2 40-A). On the other side, Maria didn’t concede a single break point during this set.They contested 57 points. Sakkari was the one to win the set after conquering 7 more points than the Dutch (32-25). Sakkari lost 8 points on serve (20-8). on the other side of the net, Koevermans conceded 12 points on serve (17-12).
Tennis Scores in ‘s Hertogenbosch
- Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Isis Louise Van Den BroekLouise Van Den Broek (6-2 6-1)
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Anouk KoevermansKoevermans (6-3 6-4)
- Carson BranstineBranstine – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-4 5-7 6-1)
- Ann LiLi – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (7-5 6-2)
- Greetje MinnenMinnen – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (4-6 6-1 6-2)
- Kimberly BirrellBirrell – Xinyu WangWang (7-5 6-72 6-1)
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Mariam BolkvadzeBolkvadze (6-3 6-4)
- Suzan LamensLamens – Yanina WickmayerWickmayer (6-3 0-6 6-3)
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Joanna GarlandGarland (6-1 6-3)
- Bernarda PeraPera – Magda LinetteLinette (6-2 6-710 7-5)
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-3 6-1)
- Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Arianne HartonoHartono (7-611 7-5)
- Lulu SunSun – Anouck Vrancken PeetersVrancken Peeters (6-1 6-3)
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Polina KudermetovaKudermetova (6-3 6-3)
- Elise MertensMertens – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (6-4 6-0)
- Yue YuanYuan – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-3 6-3)
Upcoming matches
- Carson BranstineBranstine – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Lulu SunSun (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Suzan LamensLamens – Ann LiLi (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Kimberly BirrellBirrell – Yue YuanYuan (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Elise MertensMertens (5-1) – H2H details and stats
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (3-4) – H2H details and stats