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Karolina Pliskova #7 def. Maria Sakkari #39

6-4 6-4

Match Information

Date	May 18, 2019*
Tournament	Rome
Category	WTA 500
Surface	Clay
Round	SF
Winner	Karolina Pliskova
Score	6-4 6-4
Loser	Maria Sakkari

Stat	Karolina Pliskova	Maria Sakkari
Aces	2	2
Double faults	0	2
First serve %	61	56
First serve points won %	76	54
Second serve points won %	50	61
Break points saved %	80	40
Break points converted %	60	20
Service points won %	66	57
Return points won %	43	34
Total points won %	54	46

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Karolina Pliskova	Maria Sakkari
Country	CZE	GRE
Birth date	Mar 21, 1992	Jul 25, 1995
Age	27	23
Height	186	172
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	—
Ranking (entering)	7	39
Ranking points (entering)	4,786	1,367
Elo (entering)	1,994	1,822
Career W-L	421–241	259–205
Career earnings	$26,944,237	$14,850,529

Pre-match H2H

Karolina Pliskova 0 – 1 Maria Sakkari

Path

Karolina Pliskova's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 18, 2019	QF	Victoria Azarenka	6-7(5) 6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
May 17, 2019	R16	Sofia Kenin	4-6 6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
May 16, 2019	R32	Ajla Tomljanovic	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Karolina Pliskova's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 19, 2019	F	Johanna Konta	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Maria Sakkari's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 18, 2019	QF	Kristina Mladenovic	5-7 6-3 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
May 17, 2019	R16	Petra Kvitova	7-5 5-7 4-0 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data
May 16, 2019	R32	Anett Kontaveit	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
May 15, 2019	R64	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	6-1 7-5	W	H2H	Match data