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Jessica Pegula #21 def. Maria Sakkari #8

7-6(0) 6-3

Match Information

Date	Jan 25, 2022*
Tournament	Australian Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	R16
Winner	Jessica Pegula
Score	7-6(0) 6-3
Loser	Maria Sakkari

Stat	Jessica Pegula	Maria Sakkari
Aces	6	4
Double faults	2	5
First serve %	57	55
First serve points won %	76	72
Second serve points won %	64	34
Break points saved %	67	40
Break points converted %	60	33
Service points won %	71	55
Return points won %	45	29
Total points won %	57	43

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Jessica Pegula	Maria Sakkari
Country	USA	GRE
Birth date	Feb 24, 1994	Jul 25, 1995
Age	27	26
Height	170	172
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	21	8
Ranking points (entering)	2,474	4,071
Elo (entering)	1,913	1,957
Career W-L	285–134	259–205
Career earnings	$25,333,584	$14,850,529

Pre-match H2H

Jessica Pegula 0 – 2 Maria Sakkari

Path

Jessica Pegula's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 23, 2022	R32	Nuria Parrizas Diaz	7-6(3) 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 20, 2022	R64	Bernarda Pera	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 19, 2022	R128	Anhelina Kalinina	4-6 7-6(1) 7-5	W	H2H	Match data

Jessica Pegula's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 27, 2022	QF	Ashleigh Barty	2-6 0-6	L	H2H	Match data

Maria Sakkari's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 23, 2022	R32	Veronika Kudermetova	6-4 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 20, 2022	R64	Qinwen Zheng	6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 19, 2022	R128	Tatjana Maria	6-4 7-6(2)	W	H2H	Match data