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Maria Sakkari #7 def. Irina-Camelia Begu #56

6-4 6-7(4) 6-4

Match Information

Date	Feb 12, 2022*
Tournament	St. Petersburg
Category	WTA 500
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	Maria Sakkari
Score	6-4 6-7(4) 6-4
Loser	Irina-Camelia Begu

Stat	Maria Sakkari	Irina-Camelia Begu
Aces	2	3
Double faults	3	4
First serve %	54	63
First serve points won %	68	60
Second serve points won %	45	44
Break points saved %	58	46
Break points converted %	54	42
Service points won %	57	54
Return points won %	46	43
Total points won %	52	48

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Maria Sakkari	Irina-Camelia Begu
Country	GRE	ROU
Birth date	Jul 25, 1995	Aug 26, 1990
Age	26	31
Height	172	181
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	7	56
Ranking points (entering)	4,071	1,043
Elo (entering)	1,967	1,807
Career W-L	259–205	249–234
Career earnings	$14,850,529	$9,074,683

Pre-match H2H

Maria Sakkari 1 – 1 Irina-Camelia Begu

Path

Maria Sakkari's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Feb 12, 2022	QF	Elise Mertens	7-6(7) 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 11, 2022	R16	Ekaterina Alexandrova	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 10, 2022	R32	Anastasia Potapova	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Maria Sakkari's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Feb 13, 2022	F	Anett Kontaveit	7-5 6-7(4) 5-7	L	H2H	Match data

Irina-Camelia Begu's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Feb 12, 2022	QF	Tereza Martincova	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 11, 2022	R16	Petra Kvitova	6-4 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 10, 2022	R32	Shuai Zhang	6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data