Below you can follow the main moments of the meeting between Maria Sakkari and Ekaterina Alexandrova, the match scheduled in the sixteenth round of the San Jose tournament and won by Sakkari in minimum sets.

1.What is the shape of the players in the last 5 matches?

• Elina Svitolina
• Last result: 2-0 vs Daria Kasatkina (San Jose)
• Shape: W L W W W

Defeated by 1-6 and 3-6 by Simona Halep in the Wimbledon Grand Slam semifinals, where she had not even lost a set until the penultimate act of the competition, Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, the world number 7, returns to San Jose , California, after a four-year absence.In the finals of the “Silicon Valley Classic”, Svitolina surpassed it in minimum of sets, score 6-3 and 6-1 on the Russian Daria Kasatkina, 40th place in the WTA standings.

• Maria Sakkari
• Last result: 2-1 vs Mayo Hibi (San Jose)
• Shape: W W L W W

Greek Maria Sakkari, 30th in the WTA hierarchy, left the Grand Slam at Wimbledon in the sixteenth round of the final, defeated by her opponent on Friday, Elina Svitolina, in three sets, score 3-6, 7-6 and 2-6 decisively.Present for the second time in his career on the main table of the tournament in San Jose, endowed with total prizes worth $ 876,000, Sakkari went 2-0 at sets of Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, 47th place WTA, in sixteenth, respectively by the Japanese player Mayo Hibi, the number 265 in the world, in eighth, after 4-6, 6-4 and 6-2.

2.News, analysis, statistics and progress about the 2 players.

• He checked in the semifinals of the competition, on the occasion of his previous participation in the tournament in California
• In the past, he has ranked third in the WTA standings
• Has no less than 13 WTA trophies
• He won 20 of the 32 matches played, from the beginning of this year, on all surfaces.
• It is the seventh tournament played on the hard drive in which it participates this year
• She is a finalist of the last edition of the tournament in San Jose (she gave up 1-6 and 0-6 in front of Mihaelei Buzarnescu)
• In May he was awarded the first WTA trophy in his career, in Rabat, Morocco

Tennis Prediction of the Day Elina Svitolina vs Maria Sakkari

He has played only 14 games on the hard, since the beginning of this year, managing to win 7 of them. Also in May of this year, a presence in the semifinals of the tournament in Rome was lost, lost to Karoline Pliskova. He has won 143 of the 243 matches played on this type of surface, throughout his career.

Prediction Today: Elina Svitolina

Odds: 1.47