Elena Rybakina and Maria Sakkari will face off in the 2^nd round of Wimbledon for the 6^th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 3:00 pm on Court 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elena Rybakina who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Elena Rybakina is the pick to win this match.
Elena Rybakina -> 1.16
Maria Sakkari -> 5.25

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Prediction and head to head Elena Rybakina vs. Maria Sakkari

This will be the 6^th time that Elena Rybakina and Maria Sakkari square off. The head to head is 4-1 for Rybakina (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.

The last time that they locked horns, Rybakina won 6-4 6-3 in the R in Australia back in 2024.

Highlights Elena Rybakina vs Maria Sakkari – Australia 30-December-2024

Elena Rybakina

Ranked no. 11, Elena got to the 2^nd round after defeating Elina Avanesyan 6-2 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Rybakina had a good straight sets win against Avanesyan (6-2 6-1). During the match, Rybakina scored 63 points vs Avanesyan’s 41. Elena was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about the service games, Rybakina blasted 3 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Elena Rybakina was quite effective on serve to win 74% (23/31) of her 1st serve and 51% (18/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Elena broke Avanesyan 5 times after converting 83% of her break points (5/6).

Rybakina has a good record in the last 10 years having won 70% of her matches (355-153). 4-2 on grass in 2025. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Rybakina has a compiled 37-13 win-loss record in the last years on grass.

Her best result of the current year was conquering the title in Strasbourg where she defeated Liudmila Samsonova in the final 6-1 6-7(2) 6-1.

Elena has an aggregate 30-12 win-loss record in 2025, 4-2 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Wimbledon

Maria Sakkari

Ranked no. 77, the Greek got to the 2^nd round after defeating Anna Blinkova 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Maria had a good straight sets win against Blinkova (6-4 6-4). During the match Sakkari scored 65 points vs Blinkova’s 52. Maria was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.

About the serving games, Sakkari struck 3 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Maria Sakkari lost the serve 3 times and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Sakkari put 53% of her first serves in, winning 70% (21/30) of the points behind her 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the 2nd serve. Sakkari broke Blinkova 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).

Maria has an aggregate 16-19 win-loss record in 2025, 3-3 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Wimbledon

Previously, her best result was reaching the 3^rd round in 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2024. See her history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Rybakina	Sakkari
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	20
Pts	63-41	65-52
Total Points	104	117
Winners	23	21
%Winners	37%	32%

Both Rybakina and Sakkari played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Rybakina and Sakkari have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Rybakina played 5 games less than Sakkari. The Kazakhstani scored 23 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, The Greek managed to score 21 winners (32%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Rybakina	Sakkari
Aces	3	3
Avg per match	3	3
1st in	31/66	30/57
%1st in	47%	53%
1st pts	23/31	21/30
%1st pts	74%	70%
2nd pts	18/35	14/27
%2nd pts	51%	52%

Rybakina blasted 3 aces . Sakkari scored 3 aces . Rybakina won 74% points on her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 51% of the points. On the other side, Sakkari won 70% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 52% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Rybakina	Sakkari
Won	5	5
Converted	5/6	5/10
% Converted	83%	50%
Conceded	9	4
Saved	8	1
% Saved	89%	25%
Times Broken	1	3

Rybakina broke her opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. Rybakina conceded her serve once and she saved 89% of the break points that she conceded. Maria broke her opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Greek conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 25% of the break points that she conceded.

Rybakina
	R1 Avanesyan	Total
Score	6-2 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	15
pts	63-41	63-41
Total points	104	104
Winners	23	23
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	31/66	31/66
% 1st in	47%	47%
1st pts	23/31	23/31
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	18/35	18/35
% 2nd pts	51%	51%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/6	5/6
Converted %	83%	83%
Conceded	9	9
Saved	8/9	8
Saved %	89%	89%
Times Broken	1	1

Sakkari
	R1 Blinkova	Total
Score	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	65-52	65-52
Total points	117	117
Winners	21	21
%Winners	32%	32%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	30/57	30/57
% 1st in	53%	53%
1st pts	21/30	21/30
% 1st pts	70%	70%
2nd pts	14/27	14/27
% 2nd pts	52%	52%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/10	5/10
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	1/4	1
Saved %	25%	25%
Times Broken	3	3

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