WTA Finals: Jessica Pegula vs Maria Sakkari Match Preview

 The WTA Final starts today, we will see the best of tennis players this year come face to face with one another, this year's edition promises to be a great one.

The first and only Match today is between American Jessica Pegula (WTA:3) and Maria Sakkari (WTA:5) the match will start around 00:00 GMT.

Fottennis is giving you the preview of this interesting matchup

Jessica Pegula hit the purple patch just in time for her maiden WTA Finals. Until two weeks ago, the 28-year-old owned only one career singles title and it came at a WTA 250 tournament in Washington D.C in 2019. She finally lifted her second trophy and did justice to her big-tournament form.

She saved three match points against Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina and beat Bianca Andreescu, Sloane Stephens, Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sakkari in straight sets to lift the WTA 1000 title in Guadalajara. She has more WTA 1000 wins in the last two seasons than anyone else.

Her 42 scalps in this season includes only two completed victories against top 10 players (2-9), both coming against Maria Sakkari, at the Australian Open and Guadalajara. But she has been playing exclusively on North American hard courts since the start of August, going 17-5 in this period.

Maria Sakkari became the victim to Jessica Pegula when they dueled a little more than a week ago. She had battled her way into the Guadalajara final after surviving three sets against Danielle Collins and Veronika Kudermetova, but ultimately failed to win her first title in more than three years.

She's qualified for the WTA Finals for the second year in a row after her runner-up finishes in Indian Wells and Guadalajara 1000s, St. Petersburg and Parma, and semifinals in Doha 1000 and Berlin. But she is the only player in Fort Worth who doesn't have multiple career titles to her name.

Last year she went 2-1 in round robin and finished as a semifinalist in the WTA Finals in Guadalajara. She returns to the year-end event with a 1-5 season record against top 10 players and a largely ordinary form since March, having won back-to-back matches in just two of her last eight outings.

Head-to-head: Maria Sakkari leads 3-2 but trails 1-2 in their 2022 meetings. All three encounters this year have concluded in straight sets. In fact, Jessica Pegula dropped only five games in winning the Guadalajara finals. However, this is the first time the pair are facing off in indoor conditions.