Victoria Azarenka and Elise Mertens will face off in the quarter of the J&T Banka Ostrava Open for the 2^nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 4:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Victoria Azarenka who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Victoria Azarenka is the pick to win this match.
Victoria Azarenka -> 1.72
Elise Mertens -> 2.10

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This will be the 2^nd time that Victoria Azarenka and Elise Mertens square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Azarenka (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.

Victoria Azarenka

Ranked no. 14, Victoria got to the quarter after defeating Barbora Krejcikova 2-6 6-2 6-1.

In the 2^nd round against Krejcikova, Azarenka recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-2 6-1). During the match Azarenka scored 91 points vs Krejcikova’s 81. Azarenka was quite aggressive to blast 40 winners.

Talking about the service games, Azarenka bagged 6 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Victoria Azarenka lost the serve twice and she saved 14 break points. Furthermore, Azarenka put 66% of her first serves in, winning 58% (40/69) of the points behind her 1st serve and 63% (22/35) on the 2nd serve. Victoria broke Krejcikova 4 times after converting 67% of her break points (4/6).

Azarenka has a an impressive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 76% of her matches (307-98). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2020. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this event, Azarenka has a 25-8 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

Her best result of the year was winning the title in New York where she overcame Naomi Osaka in the final w/o.

Azarenka has a 16-5 win-loss record in 2020, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Last year in Ostrava

Victoria didn’t compete in Ostrava in 2019.

Elise Mertens

Ranked no. 21, the Belgian reached the quarter after defeating Amanda Anisimova 6-2 6-3 and Karolina Muchova 6-4 6-2.

In the 2^nd round, Elise had a good straight sets win against Muchova (6-4 6-2). During the match Mertens scored 61 points vs Muchova’s 49. Elise was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about serving, Mertens managed to score 2 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Elise Mertens was extremely effective on serve to win 82% (27/33) of her 1st serve and 56% (15/27) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Elise broke Muchova 3 times after converting 75% of her break points (3/4).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Belgian hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 56% of the points she played.

Elise’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in Prague.

Elise has a 30-11 win-loss record in 2020, 4-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Last year in Ostrava

The Belgian didn’t compete in Ostrava in 2019.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Azarenka played 1 match while Mertens competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Victoria Azarenka lost 1 set while Elise Mertens hasn’t conceded a set so far. Azarenka has played 1 set(s) less than Mertens (3 vs 4). Therefore, Azarenka played 12 games less than Mertens. The Belarussian scored 40 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Mertens fired 56 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Azarenka recorded 6 aces . Mertens blasted 3 aces (1.5 per match). Azarenka won 58% points behind her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Mertens won 79% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 51% of the points.

How they played the important points

Victoria broke her opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Victoria lost her serve twice and she saved 88% of the break points that she conceded. Elise broke her opponents 7 times with a 54% conversion rate. Elise was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 10 break points.

Head 2 Head

• 2Slam
• 21Main
• 1ITF
• 0Minor

• 0Slam
• 8Main
• 4ITF
• 7Minor

Victoria
Azarenka

2:0

Elise
Mertens

Rank

23

High

1

1Hard0

1I.hard0

Rank

29

High

12

Win Loss

Azarenka

LLWWLWWLWW

Mertens

LWLWLWWWLL

2024 2023 2022

30 - 15

26 - 23

20-10

Hard

16-13

0-0

I Hard

1-1

7-4

Clay

6-5

3-1

Grass

3-4

Tennis Scores in Ostrava

• Barbora Krejcikova/Katerina SiniakovaKrejcikova/Katerina Siniakova – Magda Linette/Jil TeichmannLinette/Jil Teichmann (6-4 2-6 10-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Guido AndreozziAndreozzi – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Facundo BagnisBagnis (4-5 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Laslo DjereDjere – Andrey RublevRublev (2-6 7-5 7-6⁶) – Stats, scores, rankings

• Maria SakkariSakkari – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Elise MertensMertens (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (1-0) – H2H and prediction

Azarenka

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Mertens