Elise Mertens and Christina Mchale will play each other in the 1st round of Hobart International for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 6:00 pm on CENTRE COURT.
Elise Mertens: results and record
Ranked no. 17, Elise will start her run in Hobart after she played her last match in Shenzhen where she lost 6-4 4-6 6-2 to Rybakina in the quarter the 9th of January.
Mertens has a 2-1 win-loss record in 2020, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, The Belgian has an overall 154-100 record. She has positive 80-47 record on hard.
Last year in Hobart
Elise didn’t compete in Hobart in 2019.
Christina Mchale: results and record
Ranked no. 86, the American reached the 1st round after beating Renata Voracova 6-0 6-2 and Arantxa Rus 6-4 4-6 6-3.
Previous match vs. Arantxa Rus
In the qualifications, The American defeated Rus (6-4 4-6 6-3). During the match Mchale scored 97 points vs. Rus’s 94. Christina was extremely aggressive to blast 43 winners.
Talking about serving, Mchale wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 5 double faults. Christina Mchale lost the serve 4 times and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Mchale put 74% of her first serves in, winning 62% (43/69) of the points behind her 1st serve and 46% (11/24) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Rus 6 times after converting 32% of his break points (6/19).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Christina has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points she played.
Mchale winning performance
Mchale has a winning record in the last 10 years having won 54% of her matches (825-704). 3-1 on hard in 2020 In connection with her performance on same surface of tournament, Mchale has a 230-219 record in the last 10 years on hard.
The American has a 3-1 win-loss record in 2020, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Hobart
Mchale didn’t play in Hobart in 2019.
Draw
Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Christina Mchale
This will be the 2nd time that Elise Mertens and Christina Mchale fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Mchale (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Mchale won 6-4 6-1 in the quarter in the 1100042391 back in 2017.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elise Mertens who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Elise Mertens is the pick to win this match.
Elise Mertens -> 1.33
Christina Mchale -> 3.25
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Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Hobart
- Lauren DavisDavis – Astra SharmaSharma (6-3 3-6 7-66) – See score progression
- Heather WatsonWatson – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (1-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Magda LinetteLinette – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (7-62 7-69) – See score progression
- Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Samantha StosurStosur (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Fiona FerroFerro – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (4-4 ret.) – See score progression
- Viktoria KuzmovaViktoria – Lin ZhuLin (5-7 6-2 7-6(3)) – See score progression
- Kristyna PliskovaKristyna – Nina StojanovicNina (1-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Elise MertensMertens – Christina MchaleMchale (0-1) – See H2H details
- Lin ZhuZhu – Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (0-0) – See H2H details
- Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Alize CornetCornet (0-0) – See H2H details
- Nina StojanovicStojanovic – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Lizette CabreraCabrera – Caroline GarciaGarcia (0-0) – See H2H details
- Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Shuai ZhangZhang (0-0) – See H2H details
- Catherine Cartan BellisCartan Bellis – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-0) – See H2H details
- Yafan WangWang – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (0-0) – See H2H details
- Heather WatsonWatson – Fiona FerroFerro (1-0) – See H2H details
- Magda LinetteLinette – Lauren DavisDavis (1-2) – See H2H details
