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Maria Sakkari #18 def. Karolina Pliskova #4

6-4 6-4

Match Information

Date	Sep 9, 2021*
Tournament	US Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	QF
Winner	Maria Sakkari
Score	6-4 6-4
Loser	Karolina Pliskova

Stat	Maria Sakkari	Karolina Pliskova
Aces	4	6
Double faults	1	3
First serve %	53	61
First serve points won %	92	69
Second serve points won %	74	48
Break points saved %	—	60
Break points converted %	40	—
Service points won %	84	61
Return points won %	39	16
Total points won %	58	42

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Maria Sakkari	Karolina Pliskova
Country	GRE	CZE
Birth date	Jul 25, 1995	Mar 21, 1992
Age	26	29
Height	172	186
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	18	4
Ranking points (entering)	3,210	5,530
Elo (entering)	1,959	1,988
Career W-L	258–205	421–241
Career earnings	$14,850,529	$26,944,237

Pre-match H2H

Maria Sakkari 1 – 1 Karolina Pliskova

Path

Maria Sakkari's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 7, 2021	R16	Bianca Andreescu	6-7(2) 7-6(6) 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 4, 2021	R32	Petra Kvitova	6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 2, 2021	R64	Katerina Siniakova	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 1, 2021	R128	Marta Kostyuk	6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Maria Sakkari's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 10, 2021	SF	Emma Raducanu	1-6 4-6	L	H2H	Match data

Karolina Pliskova's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 7, 2021	R16	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	7-5 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 4, 2021	R32	Ajla Tomljanovic	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 2, 2021	R64	Amanda Anisimova	7-5 6-7(5) 7-6(7)	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 1, 2021	R128	Caty Mcnally	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data