Maria Sakkari career statistics

This is a list of the main career statistics of professional Greek tennis player Maria Sakkari.[1] Sakkari has won one singles title on the WTA Tour at the Morocco Open in 2019, and finished as runner–up at the Premier-level Silicon Valley Classic in 2018. She is also semifinalist of the two Premier 5 tournaments, 2017 Wuhan Open and 2019 Italian Open, as well as quarterfinalist of the Cincinnati Open in 2019 and 2020. At the Grand Slams, she had round of 16 as her best results at the Australian Open and US Open, both in 2020. She has made 10 top 10 wins, including wins over former number one players Serena Williams, Karolína Plíšková and Caroline Wozniacki. Sakkari has achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 20 in February 2020.

Career finals
Discipline	Type	Won	Lost	Total	WR
Singles	Grand Slam	–	–	–	–
	Summer Olympics	–	–	–	–
	Tour Championships	–	–	–	–
	Premier M. & Premier 5	–	–	–	–
	WTA Tour	1	1	2	0.50
	Total	1	1	2	0.50
Doubles	Grand Slam	–	–	–	–
	Summer Olympics	–	–	–	–
	Tour Championships	–	–	–	–
	Premier M. & Premier 5	–	–	–	–
	WTA Tour	–	–	–	–
	Total	–	–	–	–
Total		1	1	2	0.50

Greek professional tennis player Maria Sakkari.

Career achievements

Sakkari in 2019

Sakkari debuted at the WTA Tour in 2015 at the US Open as a qualifier. The following year, she improved with both her game and results. She made her debut at the Premier Mandatory level-tournaments at the 2016 Miami Open and also recorded her first Grand Slam win at the Australian Open. That year she also made her breakthrough into the top 100 for the first time.

Her first big recognation happened in 2017 at the Wuhan Open, where she produced some good performances. She reached her first mandatory semifinal and also recorded her first top 10 win, defeating world No. 6 Caroline Wozniacki in the straight sets.[2] During the year, she also reached three Grand Slam third-rounds. This lead her straight into the top 50 for the first time.

In 2018, she made significant results as well. First, she reached round of 16 at the Premier Mandatory-level Indian Wells Open. As a world No. 58, on her way to the round of 16 she defeated three better ranked players, Donna Vekić, Ashleigh Barty and CoCo Vandeweghe, before she lost to later champion Naomi Osaka. She followed this with third round of Miami Open and later semifinal of Istanbul Cup. At the Italian Open, she first defeating Kiki Bertens in the first round and then recorded her second career top 10 win, defeating world No. 5 Karolína Plíšková in the controversial match in the second round,[3] but later lost to Angelique Kerber. She then reached third round of the French Open, thus completing third round at the all Grand Slams. In August, she reached her first WTA singles final at the Silicon Valley Classic, but lost to Mihaela Buzărnescu. In September, she reached semifinal of the Korea Open.

In 2019, her first big significant result came at the Charleston Open, where she reached quarterfinal and recorded another top 10 win, defeating world No. 6 Kiki Bertens, before she lost to Caroline Wozniacki.[4] In early May, she won her first WTA singles title at the Morocco Open in Rabat, defeating Johanna Konta in the final.[5] At the Italian Open, she reached her second-career Premier 5 semifinal,[6] where she also defeating world No. 5 Petra Kvitová after the retirement in the third set,[7] but later lost to world No. 7 Karolína Plíšková. For the second year in a row, she reached semifinal at the Silicon Valley Classic where she also made another top 10 win over world No. 7 Elina Svitolina.[8] She then continued with improvements, reaching quarterfinal at the Cincinnati Open including two top 10 wins over Kvitová and Aryna Sabalenka, before she lost to world No. 2 Barty.[9] For the first time, she qualified for the year end championship WTA Elite Trophy, where she finished participation in a round-robin group, after she lost to Sabalenka and Elise Mertens.[10]

In the early begging of the year, at the Australian Open, Sakkari reached round of 16 for the first time at the any Grand Slam. On her way to the round of 16, she defeating two lower ranked player, Margarita Gasparyan and Nao Hibino and then made a win over world No. 11 Madison Keys in the straight sets,[11] before she lost to world No. 8 Petra Kvitová.[12] She followed this win another great performance at the Premier-level St. Petersburg Trophy, where she reached semifinal and also defeating world No. 5 Belinda Bencic.[13] In late February, she debuted in the top 20, getting to the career-high WTA rankings of 20. In the second half of the year, Sakkari continued with progress. At the Cincinnati Open she reached quarterfinal for the second year in a row,[14] but also made her first win over Serena Williams.[15] Followed with this, she reached round of 16 at the US Open, where Serena Williams made her revange. Sakkari finished year playing at the Premier-level Ostrava Open where she reached semifinal and also recorded another top 10 win over Elina Svitolina.[16]

Performance timelines

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

A

P

Z#

PO

G

F-S

SF-B

NMS

NH

(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (P) postponed; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (F-S) silver or (SF-B) bronze Olympic medal; a (NMS) downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament; (NH) not held. SR=strike rate (events won/competed)

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

P = postponed

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.[17][18]

Singles

Current after the 2021 Grampians Trophy.

Tournament	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	2R	3R	1R	3R	4R		0 / 5	8–5	62%
French Open	A	Q1	1R	3R	2R	3R		0 / 4	5–4	56%
Wimbledon	A	2R	3R	1R	3R	NH		0 / 4	5–4	56%
US Open	1R	1R	3R	2R	3R	4R		0 / 6	8–6	57%
Win–Loss	0–1	2–3	6–4	3–4	7–4	8–3		0 / 19	26–19	58%
Year-end championships
WTA Elite Trophy	Did Not Qualify				RR	NH		0 /1	0–2	0%
WTA 1000
Dubai / Qatar Open^1	A	A	A	1R	A	3R		0 / 2	2–2	50%
Indian Wells Open	A	Q1	Q2	4R	1R	NH		0 / 2	3–2	60%
Miami Open	A	1R	Q1	3R	2R	NH		0 / 3	3–3	50%
Madrid Open	A	Q2	Q2	1R	1R	NH		0 / 2	0–2	0%
Italian Open	A	A	Q1	3R	SF	A		0 / 2	6–2	75%
Canadian Open	A	A	A	1R	1R	NH		0 / 2	0–2	0%
Cincinnati Open	A	Q1	A	2R	QF	QF		0 / 3	7–3	70%
Wuhan Open	A	A	SF	1R	A	NH		0 / 2	4–2	67%
China Open	A	Q2	A	1R	A	NH		0 / 1	0–1	0%
Career statistics
	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	SR	W–L	Win %
Tournaments	1	12	16	24	22	11	2	Career total: 88
Titles	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	Career total: 1
Finals	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	Career total: 2
Hard Win–Loss	0–1	2–9	9–7	15–17	11–13	18–9	6–2	0 / 57	61–58	51%
Clay Win–Loss	0–0	2–2	3–7	7–4	13–5	2–2	0–0	1 / 21	27–20	57%
Grass Win–Loss	0–0	1–1	4–2	0–3	5–4	0–0	0–0	0 / 10	10–10	50%
Overall Win–Loss	0–1	5–12	16–16	22–24	29–22	20–11	6–2	1 / 88	98–88	53%
Win (%)	0%	29%	50%	48%	57%	65%	75%	Career total: 53%
Year-end ranking^2	188	89	52	41	23			$3,540,619

Doubles

Tournament	2018	2019	2020	2021	SR	W–L	Win %
Australian Open	A	1R	1R		0 / 2	0–2	0%
French Open	1R	A	A		0 / 1	0–1	0%
Wimbledon	1R	2R	NH		0 / 2	1–2	33%
US Open	A	2R	A		0 / 1	1–1	50%
Win–Loss	0–2	2–3	0–1		0 / 6	2–6	25%

Notes

• ¹ The first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Open since 2009. Dubai was classified as a Premier 5 event from 2009 to 2011 before being succeeded by Doha for the 2012–2014 period. In 2015, Dubai regained its Premier 5 status while Doha was demoted to Premier status. The two tournaments have since alternated status every year.
• ² 2011: WTA ranking–702, 2012: WTA ranking–627, 2013: WTA ranking–610, 2014: WTA ranking–301.

WTA career finals

Sakkari debuted at the WTA Tour in 2015 at the US Open as a qualifier. Since then, she reached two singles finals.[18]

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0) Premier (0–1) International (1–0)

Finals by surface Hard (0–1) Grass (0–0) Clay (1–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 2018	Silicon Valley Classic, United States	Premier	Hard	Mihaela Buzărnescu	1–6, 0–6
Win	1–1	May 2019	Morocco Open, Morocco	International	Clay	Johanna Konta	2–6, 6–4, 6–1

ITF Circuit finals

Sakkari debuted at the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour in 2010 at the $10K event in Mytilene in her homeland Greece. In singles, she has been in 17 finals and won seven of them, while in doubles she has been in nine finals and won five of them. Her biggest title on the ITF Tour was $75K Al Habtoor Challenge in doubles event in November 2015.[19]

Singles: 17 (7 titles, 10 runner–ups)

Legend $100,000 tournaments $75,000 tournaments $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (3–4) Clay (4–6) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 2011	ITF Athens, Greece	10,000	Clay	Deniz Khazaniuk	6–1, 3–6, 3–6
Loss	0–2	Sep 2012	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Hard	Ana Bogdan	3–6, 2–6
Loss	0–3	Sep 2013	ITF Mytilini, Greece	10,000	Hard	Klaartje Liebens	1–6, 2–6
Loss	0–4	Sep 2013	ITF Athens, Greece	10,000	Hard	Aminat Kushkova	0–6, 5–7
Loss	0–5	Apr 2014	ITF Heraklion, Greece	10,000	Hard	Pernilla Mendesová	2–6, 2–6
Win	1–5	Apr 2014	ITF Heraklion	10,000	Hard	Despina Papamichail	6–1, 1–6, 6–3
Loss	1–6	May 2014	ITF Båstad, Sweden	10,000	Clay	Conny Perrin	5–7, 1–6
Win	2–6	May 2014	ITF Båstad	10,000	Clay	Carolin Daniels	7–5, 6–2
Win	3–6	Jun 2014	ITF Niš, Serbia	10,000	Clay	Dea Herdželaš	3–6, 6–4, 6–1
Loss	3–7	Jun 2014	Bella Cup, Poland	25,000	Clay	Barbora Krejčíková	4–6, 1–6
Win	4–7	Jul 2014	Tampere Open, Finland	10,000	Clay	Anastasia Pivovarova	6–4, 7–5
Loss	4–8	Aug 2014	ITF Savitaipale, Finland	10,000	Clay	Emma Laine	3–6, 7–5, 0–6
Win	5–8	Mar 2015	ITF Heraklion, Greece	10,000	Hard	Anastasiya Komardina	6–4, 6–3
Win	6–8	Mar 2015	ITF Heraklion	10,000	Hard	Valentini Grammatikopoulou	6–2, 6–2
Win	7–8	May 2015	Infond Open, Slovenia	25,000	Clay	Rebecca Peterson	3–6, 6–2, 6–2
Loss	7–9	May 2016	Open Saint-Gaudens, France	50,000+H	Clay	Irina Khromacheva	6–1, 6–7^(3–7), 1–6
Loss	7–10	Jun 2016	Naturtex Open, Hungary	50,000	Clay	Viktoriya Tomova	6–4, 0–6, 4–6

Doubles: 9 (5 titles, 4 runner–ups)

Legend $100,000 tournaments $75,000 tournaments $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (2–2) Clay (3–2) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 2013	ITF Athens, Greece	10,000	Hard	Lee Pei-chi	Keren Shlomo Saray Sterenbach	6–3, 1–6, [8–10]
Loss	0–2	Apr 2014	ITF Heraklion, Greece	10,000	Hard	Despina Papamichail	Natela Dzalamidze Valentini Grammatikopoulou	7–6, 3–6, [5–10]
Win	1–2	May 2014	ITF Båstad, Sweden	10,000	Clay	Kim Grajdek	Dea Herdželaš Conny Perrin	7–5, 6–4
Win	2–2	Jun 2014	ITF Niš, Serbia	10,000	Clay	Alexandra Nancarrow	Lina Gjorcheska Marina Lazić	6–3, 6–0
Win	3–2	Jul 2014	Tampere Open, Finland	10,000	Clay	Alexandra Nancarrow	Emma Laine Anastasia Pivovarova	6–2, 6–3
Loss	3–3	Aug 2014	ITF Savitaipale, Finland	10,000	Clay	Alexandra Nancarrow	Emma Laine Diana Bogoliy	4–6, 6–7
Win	4–3	Sep 2014	ITF Madrid, Spain	10,000	Hard	Inés Ferrer Suárez	Yvonne Cavallé Reimers Lucía Cervera Vázquez	6–2, 3–6, [11–9]
Loss	4–4	Aug 2015	ITF Bad Saulgau, Germany	25,000	Clay	Despina Papamichail	Cristina Dinu Diana Buzean	6–2, 3–6, [8–10]
Win	5–4	Nov 2015	Al Habtoor Challenge, UAE	75,000	Hard	Çağla Büyükakçay	Elise Mertens İpek Soylu	7–6^(8–6), 6–4

WTA Tour career earnings

During the years, Sakkari start earning more money along with better results on the WTA Tour. In 2019, for the first time she earned more than $1M in a standalone year. As of the end of 2020, she is ranked as 156th player with most career-earned money.[18]

Year	Grand Slam singles titles	WTA singles titles	Total singles titles	Earnings ($)	Money list rank
2015	0	0	0	62,248	218
2016	0	0	0	251,192	117
2017	0	0	0	573,742	60
2018	0	0	0	756,233	52
2019	0	1	1	1,060,223	40
2020	0	0	0	784,535	19
2021
Career*	0	1	1	3,540,619	156

Note: as of the end of 2020

Record against other players

Record against top 10 players

• Sakkari's record against players who have been ranked in the top 10.[20]

Player	Record	Win%	Hard	Clay	Grass	Last Match
Number 1 ranked players
Garbiñe Muguruza	1–0	100%	1–0	–	–	Won (7–5, 6–4) at 2021 Abu Dhabi
Karolína Plíšková	1–1	50%	–	1–1	–	Lost (4–6, 4–6) at 2019 Rome
Serena Williams	1–1	50%	1–1	–	–	Lost (3–6, 7–6^(8–6), 3–6) at 2020 US Open
Caroline Wozniacki	1–1	50%	1–0	0–1	–	Lost (2–6, 2–6) at 2019 Charleston
Venus Williams	1–2	33%	1–1	–	0–1	Won (6–4, 7–6^(7–2)) at 2018 San Jose
Naomi Osaka	1–3	25%	1–2	–	0–1	Lost (2–6, 7–6^(7–4), 3–6) at 2020 Brisbane
Ashleigh Barty	1–4	20%	1–4	–	–	Lost (5–7, 3–6) at 2019 US Open
Victoria Azarenka	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (1–6, 3–6) at 2020 Ostrava
Angelique Kerber	0–2	0%	0–1	0–1	–	Lost (1–6, 1–6) at 2018 Rome
Number 2 ranked players
Vera Zvonareva	1–0	100%	–	1–0	–	Won (6–4, 6–2) at 2019 Rome
Petra Kvitová	2–2	50%	1–2	1–0	–	Lost (7–6^(7–4), 3–6, 2–6) at 2020 Australian Open
Svetlana Kuznetsova	0–1	0%	–	–	0–1	Lost (3–6, 6–3, 4–6) at 2018 Eastbourne
Number 3 ranked players
Elina Svitolina	2–1	67%	2–0	–	0–1	Won (6–3, 6–3) at 2020 Ostrava
Number 4 ranked players
Belinda Bencic	1–0	100%	1–0	–	–	Won (2–6, 6–4, 6–3) at 2020 St. Petersburg
Francesca Schiavone	1–0	100%	–	1–0	–	Won (6–3, 6–4) at 2016 Osprey
Kiki Bertens	3–3	50%	1–2	2–1	–	Won (7–6^(10–8), 6–3) at 2019 Charleston
Sofia Kenin	1–2	33%	1–1	–	0–1	Won (2–6, 6–2, 6–0) at 2021 Abu Dhabi
Johanna Konta	1–3	25%	0–1	1–0	0–2	Lost (4–6, 3–6) at 2020 Cincinnati
Caroline Garcia	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (3–6, 2–6) at 2017 Wuhan
Samantha Stosur	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (1–6, 4–6) at 2018 Dubai Qualifying
Number 5 ranked players
Jeļena Ostapenko	1–1	50%	1–0	0–1	–	Won (1–6, 6–3, 2–6) at 2019 Australian Open
Number 6 ranked players
Carla Suárez Navarro	1–3	25%	0–1	1–2	–	Lost (3–6, 3–6) at 2019 Madrid
Number 7 ranked players
Madison Keys	1–0	100%	1–0	–	–	Won (6–4, 6–4) at 2020 Australian Open
Aryna Sabalenka	1–4	20%	1–4	–	–	Lost (3–6, 2–6) at 2021 Abu Dhabi
Roberta Vinci	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (4–6, 0–6) at 2017 Sydney
Number 9 ranked players
CoCo Vandeweghe	1–0	100%	1–0	–	–	Won (6–2, 6–4) at 2018 Indian Wells
Andrea Petkovic	2–1	67%	–	2–1	–	Won (6–2, 7–5) at 2019 Rome Qualifying
Julia Görges	2–3	40%	1–2	1–0	0–1	Won (6–4, 6–3) at 2020 Doha
Number 10 ranked players
Kristina Mladenovic	1–0	100%	–	1–0	–	Won (5–7, 6–3, 6–0) at 2019 Rome
Daria Kasatkina	0–3	0%	0–1	0–2	–	Lost (4–6, 6–4, 1–6) at 2018 Montreal
Total	29–45	39%	17–27 (39%)	12–10 (55%)	0–8 (0%)

Notes

• Active players are in boldface.
• Statistics as of January 18, 2021.

Top-10 wins

Sakkari has a 11–15 (42.3%) record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10. Her first top 10 win was over Caroline Wozniacki at the 2017 Wuhan Open and since then Sakkari recorded at least one top 10 win every season. In total, she has 11 top 10 wins. Among her wins, there are former number one players Wozniacki, Karolína Plíšková and Serena Williams.[21]

Season	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	Total
Wins	1	1	5	3	1	11

No.	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Rd	Score	MSR
2017
1.	Caroline Wozniacki	No. 6	Wuhan Open, China	Hard	2R	7–5, 6–3	No. 80
2018
2.	Karolína Plíšková	No. 5	Italian Open, Italy	Clay	2R	3–6, 6–3, 7–5	No. 42
2019
3.	Kiki Bertens	No. 6	Charleston Open, United States	Clay	3R	7–6^(10–8), 6–3	No. 50
4.	Petra Kvitová	No. 5	Italian Open, Italy	Clay	3R	7–5, 5–7, 4–0 ret.	No. 39
5.	Elina Svitolina	No. 7	Silicon Valley Classic, United States	Hard	QF	1–6, 7–6^(7–3), 6–3	No. 30
6.	Petra Kvitová	No. 6	Cincinnati Open, United States	Hard	2R	6–4, 2–6, 6–3	No. 33
7.	Aryna Sabalenka	No. 9	Cincinnati Open, United States	Hard	3R	6–7^(4–7), 6–4, 6–4	No. 33
2020
8.	Belinda Bencic	No. 5	St. Petersburg Trophy, Russia	Hard (i)	QF	2–6, 6–4, 6–3	No. 21
9.	Serena Williams	No. 9	Cincinnati Open, United States	Hard	3R	5–7, 7–6^(7–5), 6–1	No. 21
10.	Elina Svitolina	No. 5	Ostrava Open, Czech Republic	Hard (i)	2R	6–3, 6–3	No. 23
2021
11.	Sofia Kenin	No. 4	Abu Dhabi Open, UAE	Hard	QF	2–6, 6–2, 6–0	No. 22

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